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

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It would be comical if it weren't so insane.

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It's just a flawed term to use for a fundamentally flawed trait (race), which relies on arbitrary and reductionistic categorization.

But your example is not insane, since we all know the meaning, even if it's terribly flawed. Just like I'm technically a Native American, but I know that is not what the mean when the ask what my race is.