"African American"

[Shogun Gunner]

Originally posted by Jaguar Warrior
I agree with that one. It has a "Cowboys and Indians" connotation.

We should have a faster way of saying it than Native-American, though.

Indian-American?

[jdd2007]

Originally posted by Jaguar Warrior

Would be funny if he got into some college on affirmative action and then the school tried to kick him out for not being "African American"

I believe there is a movement by the right for high school seniors to lie about their ethnicity to **** up the best efforts toward affirmative ation. I would do it. To get into a better college.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Shogun Gunner
Indian-American?

Except there actually are "Indian-Americans". So you end up with some confusion.

[Jaguar]

Plus Indian American is 7 syllables as opposed to 6.

[Shogun Gunner]

Originally posted by skywalker


Except there actually are "Indian-Americans". So you end up with some confusion.

I forgot my in the previous post.

You are correct of course.

[Shogun Gunner]

Originally posted by Jaguar Warrior
Plus Indian American is 7 syllables as opposed to 6.

I didn't realize that, but glad to see my suggestion was even more ridiculous that I originally thought....

Geez...must be getting punchy....i'm alternating back and forth between a big game of c3c and posting on poly....

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Shogun Gunner


Indian-American?

My favorite, that I use -- Amerindian.

[Caligastia]

The term 'african american' is rather amusing considering the vast majority of the people it refers to have never been to africa, know nothing of the history of africa, and would never want to live in africa.

[MrFun]

Cali -- were you just trying to copy and past the initial post??

[Drake Tungsten]

My favorite, that I use -- Amerindian.

[Caligastia]

Originally posted by MrFun
Cali -- were you just trying to copy and past the initial post??

No. Perhaps you didn't read it very carefully. I don't see any repetition.

[JimmyCracksCorn]

African American is outdated, but still somewhat accurate. We use African in the sense of the particular ethnicity of those Africans below the Saharra Desert and American in the sense that they're in America.

While I'm sure some people who ascribe to be African Americans maybe are not, I would say most people who we typically pinned as AA are.

Fact is, race doesn't exist anyways, and the human gene pool is so diverse, even in isolated areas, that genes from everywhere are in all of us to at least some degree, so where do we draw the line? All we have to go in physical appearance...

[Shogun Gunner]

that's racist!

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten

My favorite, that I use -- Amerindian.

Got another migraine?

[Drake Tungsten]

Got another migraine?

No, but my urge to kill is rising.