I very rarely find myself needing to vocally describe a person's skin color, be it black, peach, white, red, burgundy, chocolate, orange, goldenrod. African American is way too verbose and unwieldy.
"Black" sounds harsher than "African American". It feels like a stronger word.
AFBrat77
so does "White"
I'd like to be called European-American please ;)
I'm sick of double-standard crap.
I'm not saying whether it's right or not. In fact, I find it laughable that people waste their time on issues like this. People complain about other people who are "politically correct" due to the fact that they curtail the use of certain words, and then proceed to do the same in reverse.
And there is no reason to keep calling them "African Americans." "Black" works just fine. One doesn't go around calling people "Ukranian Americans" or "Indonesian Americans."
[QUOTE="CampOfDuty"]C'mon, America! Get your facts straight! Not all black people are African and not all Africans are black. Sheesh...Commander-Gree
Not to mention that not all black people are American. What do you call a black person from the UK? African English? Here in the UK we just say they are black
[QUOTE="Suzy_Q_Kazoo"] This is the correct answer.Suzy_Q_Kazoo
Fine. I want to be called European - American from now on, not white!
Calling someone white is racist! :roll:
I didn't say it was necessary in any way, if you re-read the quote, I was merely agreeing with his answer. Personally, I just say black people.
I know, it wasn't an attack on your post, and I know there's this "political correctness", I agree with your post as well, I'm just giving a raspberry to the whole "political correctness" thing's existence.
I don't get why the term "African-american" is always singled out and attracts so much controversy when people were describing themselves using terms like "Anglo-American" and "Irish-American" long before the term "African-American" entered the mainstream lexicon.
But to answer the question in the OP, a lot of black people like to describe themselves as "African-American" because it connotes their ethnic and cultural roots - something that the word "black" doesn't
Because people are stupid. If they were not born in Africa, then they are not African-American. None of the black people I know like to be called African-American, They all just prefer "black"
Fine. I want to be called European - American from now on, not white!
Calling someone white is racist! :roll:
AFBrat77
I didn't say it was necessary in any way, if you re-read the quote, I was merely agreeing with his answer. Personally, I just say black people.
I know, it wasn't an attack on your post, and I know there's this "political correctness", I agree with your post as well, I'm just giving a raspberry to the whole "political correctness" thing's existence.
[QUOTE="hokies1313"]Because all black people do originate from Africa in some for or another. And, sure, not all Africans are black, but the whites that settled in AFrica are called by other names (Boers, Rhodesians/White Zimbabweans, Afrikaners, etc) and those that are Arab, such as in the north, are called by their own section. Learn2Slavetrade though, All those blacks that come from the Caribbean all originally came from Africa.Vesica_Prime
How about Australian Aboriginals?
Exception to the rule. There are no other native black groups outside of Africa, besides the aboriginals, iirc.
also raises the question of why only in america every raise is -american its not spanish or mexican or black or just plain american no its caucasian american its aftrican america its mexican american i dont hear other countries doing this so why does america do it ive never heard of an african chinese person im just saying.
also raises the question of why only in america every raise is -american its not spanish or mexican or black or just plain american no its caucasian american its aftrican america its mexican american i dont hear other countries doing this so why does america do it ive never heard of an african chinese person im just saying.kayoticdreamz
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