re: Do you say "Black" or "African American"?

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And the race that you call Asians is "American"???

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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.

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Of course I don't call them African American. They're white and not of African heritage

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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.

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.