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

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A large proportion of this country's black population exists here because ancestors were ripped as freemen from their homeland, and forced into slavery. At that point by and large, their history, genealogy, and heritage were ripped from them as well. All most have left of it, is a knowledge of the continent from which their progenitors originated.

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Never mind that black tribes more often than not sold rival tribes to Europeans.

I just get tired of the slavery discussion because a lot of us Europeans immigrated here in early 20th century. The way you hear urban black people get so defensive these days you'd think we were one generation removed from slavery. It's not like they faced genocide on the level of Jews in WW2.