re: High achieving African immigrants have crowded out black Americans

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This is why I laugh that so many people actually consider Obama to be African-American.

His ancestors were not American slaves.

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Well, he certainly is a man of many hats, but he is of African decent and American. Certainly African American is not a totally inaccurate term.

However it is one that has largely been used to describe black people whose ancestors were brought to this country through slavery. Recent African immigrants identify with their country of origin, and thus I could see how that term could be considered inaccurate for them.