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re: What happened to "African-American"?
Posted on 5/8/21 at 3:10 pm to Wednesday
Posted on 5/8/21 at 3:10 pm to Wednesday
quote:Pretty sure those hyphens started with Irish-Americans, Italian-Americans, etc.
African American is the most stupid divisive term ever.
I loathe that any kind of hyphenated American became part of our lexicon.
I’ve never seen what was wrong with saying black people or white people.
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Posted on 5/8/21 at 3:11 pm to mmcgrath
If you think really hard, you’ll see how those examples are different.
Posted on 5/8/21 at 3:13 pm to mmcgrath
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Pretty sure those hyphens started with Irish-Americans, Italian-Americans, etc.
But those two were never used by people 200 years removed from immigration.
Posted on 5/8/21 at 5:17 pm to mmcgrath
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Pretty sure those hyphens started with Irish-Americans, Italian-Americans, etc.
this. we still have Irish-Italian parades
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