re: Your mind will wrap itself in knots if you ponder the term 'African American'

Thank you, thank you. And I think it was roadgator who marveled at how seldom, if ever, he hears the (European)-American labels, and that's ultimately because most people we all know are not first-generation Americans, but multi-generational mutt Americans. There isn't an ethnic ingredient in me that comprises of more than 25% of my blood, so I'm way far from saying "French-American" about myself.