'nuf said.
My ex-girlfriend is an African American (Egyptian). She hopes that the Gubmint replaces “black” with African American so she can become the oppressed minority that she always thought she was.
'nuf said.
***”negro” and “colored” were used, often disparagingly. Today, these two terms are unacceptable**
Yet “whitey”, “Cracker” and “honky” are used almost everyday by “African Americans”...ain’t diversity great?
United Negro College Fund.
National Association For The Advancement Of (liberal) Colored People.
Yeah those words sure are disparaging.
How about those who call Collin Powell and Condi Rice Uncle Toms and house ni**ers?
Question the authority of socialists who demand to speak for everyone of a certain skin color.
What about a white-guy immigrant from Praetoria? Does he qualify? (That’d mix things up)...
And whats a Hispanic?
Whites from SA that became US Citizens are African Americans too.
So is it a race designation?
So what's the fuss?
According to Tuh-ray-zuh, rich wife of the Haughty John Kerry, there is an important difference between “African American” and “African-American”. I can’t remember what the difference is, however.
I am. I'm the first negro African American white boy with blonde (ish) hair and blue eyes.
I probably have more african blood in me than Barack Obama has American Black blood in him.
Blue-eyed soul. That's it. On that basis, I am black. I am a black American, on the basis of blue eyed soul. And yes, I can keep a beat. I can hit the high notes. When the mood strikes me -- granted it's rare -- I can dance.
I am the first black American white boy, and I deserve to be president, and if you don't think so, it's clearly because you're a racist.
Yes added to Black Americans, Mexican Americans, as well as the whole panoply of other "Hyphenated Americans," is it any wonder that we have stopped being a melting pot where all assimilate and strive to become, just, AMERICANS?
Funny, both my parents emigrated to the US from Montreal as I'm sure many Freepers had parents/grand-parents who emigrated from other countries such as Germany, Italy, Greece, etc.
Why is it, they never thought of themselves as German-Americans, Italian Americans, etc.
I many be mistaken, but was it not blacks who first began this practice of hyphenation?
And while on the same subject, why don't we see many Vietnamese, Chinese, Japanese and other Orientals who choose to be called --------Americans?
There are many who are proud of their ancestry and heritage and if we wanted to take this to the a ridiculous extreme, every single one of us could refer themselves as ------- Americans.
Pray tell, in which other country does this ludicrous practice exists?
Has anyone ever heard someone referred to an Somalian-German, or an Egyptian-Italian, or a Turkis-Frenchman or even, an African-Canadian?
IMHO, however, either someone is American or they are not. Which is it going to be?
Interesting that the word Africa came from the white races of men.
I would agree the near approximation is vulgar. However “Negro” is not. Throughout our language, the Greco-Latin derived words tend to be the “upper class words” while the Anglo-Saxon derived words are the common terms. Cf. lavatory and bathroom, pagan and heathen, boreal and northern.
I suspect “Negro” will come back some day, probably for the wrong reasons.
I always thought it was victim.
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What’s in a Name: Who Is an African American?
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I only got to see a bit of the PBS show “African American Lives 2”
a few weeks ago.
It was well-done, not as preachy about race as I expected, partly due
to the even-handed tone of the host Henry Louis Gates Jr. (prof at
Harvard).
It was very interesting to see the reaction of the celebrities
when they got the news of how their DNA profile pointed to certain ethnic
groups in Africa and the estimated % of DNA from European sources.
Prof. Gates was actually amused when he, the head of African-American
studies at Harvard, was informed that he has approx. 50% DNA of
European origin, more specifically from Ireland.
One let-down of a sort occurred when some of the celebrities had
their family stories of “Indian blood” (Native-American) shown to
be inaccurate.
AFRICAN AMERICAN LIVES 2
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aalives/about.html
Joining Professor Gates in the new broadcast are poet Maya Angelou,
author Bliss Broyard, actor Don Cheadle, actor Morgan Freeman,
theologian Peter Gomes, publisher Linda Johnson Rice, athlete
Jackie Joyner-Kersee, radio personality Tom Joyner, comedian Chris
Rock, music legend Tina Turner, and college administrator Kathleen Henderson,
who was selected from more than 2,000 applicants to have her family
history researched and DNA tested alongside the series’ well-known guests.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~amciv/faculty/gates.shtml