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re: Do you say "Black" or "African American"?
Posted on 5/30/14 at 6:20 pm to L.A.
Posted on 5/30/14 at 6:20 pm to L.A.
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Well then what race do you call Asian Americans? Yellows?
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I call them Americans. I do call Caucasians 'whites'. It's socially acceptable. Same with the term 'blacks'. 'African American' as a term for blacks living in America is inaccurate. Not all blacks are from Africa, at least not recently. Some are from the Caribbean, Central America, etc. And if you go back far enough, say about 1 million years, we're ALL from Africa. And not all African Americans are black.
The race that you call white people is "white". The race that you call black people is "black". And the race that you call Asians is "American"??? And yeah I know that not all black people are not African American. I said that in my initial response as to why I preferred black.
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Some are white. Charlize Theron is an African American. She was actually born in Africa and lived there for awhile, although she now lives in America. Do you call Charlize Theron an African American? How about Ernie Els, or Gary Player?
Of course I don't call them African American. They're white and not of African heritage. Barack Obama was born in Hawaii. Do you consider him Pacific Islander?
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Posted on 5/30/14 at 6:28 pm to Easy
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Of course I don't call them African American. They're white and not of African heritage
But they were born and raised in Africa, you racist a-hole
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Barack Obama was born in Hawaii.
No he wasn't
Posted on 5/30/14 at 6:34 pm to Easy
quote:I mean I call Asians who are Americans, Americans. I don't call them Asian Americans. At least the term Asian is accurate, however, since all of them come from Asia.
And the race that you call Asians is "American"???
quote:So we agree that to use the term African American as a descriptive for all blacks is inaccurate, which was my point to begin with.
Of course I don't call them African American. They're white and not of African heritage
Do you not see how absurd it is to say that someone BORN and RAISED in Africa and who moves to America is NOT an African American because they are white? But someone who is born in, say, Alabama, and whose parents were born in Alabama, and their parents before them but who is black IS an African American, even though they have never been to Africa, can't speak any African languages, know nothing of African culture, and who probably know next to nothing about Africa? Simply because of the color of their skin? Sounds racist as hell to me.
This post was edited on 5/30/14 at 6:53 pm
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