re: African - Americans

Texan American works.

And one reason I don't use the term "African-American" is that one of my friends growing up was from South Africa. He is white. He used to get a kick out of saying he's African-American. From that point it made me think about how the term is kind of silly when you look at t like that.

Because of that, "African-American" to mean black never made sense to me. And then you have to think about other black people who are not American. If a black guy from England lives in New York, he's not "African-American". Do you call him "black", but call black Americans "African-American"?

I just prefer to say "black" because I just don't think the term African American is as good a term as black.