"African American"

[Q Classic]

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

reds.
'cept that has a commie connotation.
savages.
but that perpetuates the white man's burden bull****.
kemosabe.
except, didn't that refer to a white dude?
tonto.
could work, but i'm sure there's more variety in names.

you could always make the difference by calling them woo-woo injuns and dot injuns.

Obviously a South African would not be an African-American because they are not American.

that answer is a bit disingenuous.
doesn't dave matthews make his home here? isn't he a south african-american? an african-american?
we have a priest here by the name of fr. sullivan. his ancestry's irish, but he's from zimbabwe, and has had three generations of his family born there. he's now here in atlanta as an immigrant. is he not african american, even if he is pasty white?
what's wrong with the term black?
or strongly pigmented american?

Personally, I have a problem with the phrase "(fill in the blank)-American". I think the only word that matters is "American". We are all Americans (or at least those of you from the U.S. who are reading this) and that is the only thing that matters. Filling in that blank above is divisive.

i tend to agree... however, you run can into thorny troubles with that, particularly if you're looking from a different slope like me. (badump bump tshh!)
if you look foreign, people are going to attach just the (fill in the blank) part without adding the american part. when describing people of our slanted nature, we're almost always described first as asians, then as americans.
i agree that we're all americans. that doesn't mean that such x-american terms don't have their uses--asian americans need to use it to underscore the fact that we're not going back to some "mother home country land".

[Agathon]

Afro-American?

Why don't we call them what they want to be called? Surely that would be the sensible suggestion.

[DAVOUT]

*Amerindians* is generally used for the natives of South America.

[Drake Tungsten]

Why don't we call them what they want to be called?

Because white people aren't allowed to use "nigga".

[Gibsie]

I prefer the term "darkies". Hoho.

I was once chastised for not referring to black people who live in Britain as "African-Americans". I was mighty confused...

[Agathon]

Here in Toronto, black people really dislike being grouped together. Just you try telling anyone from the rest of the West Indies that they've got anything in common with Jamaicans.

[Guynemer]

I like "First Nations" for the people-formerly-known-as-Indians.

[Tripledoc]

In America aren't blacks more intelligent than whites?

[MrFun]

No -- it's that gays are more intelligent than straights.

[loinburger]

Originally posted by Tingkai
A black American is an African-American because they are Americans whose ancestors were from Africa.

Folks I know whose ancestry is from Egypt or Morocco are more of a tannish color, and presumably if I knew anybody whose ancestry is from Tunisia or Algeria then they would similarly be of a tannish color. But please don't let facts get in the way of your righteous indignation.

[chequita guevara]

And they call themselves Arabs or Arab-Americans, don't they, loiny?

I love this debate, every friggan time it comes up. Buncha dumbass clueless muther****ers pissed that they can't go around being *******s.

You know why the words African-American were linked together, because, even today, many people still don't remember that Blacks folks are Americans. Even as late as a decade ago, a survey by the Chicago Tribune found that the majority of white people surveyed didn't think of Black people as Americans and felt that they weern't loyal enough to America. So Black people needed to remind whites folks that they've been in the US every bit as long as white people.

As for hyphen-American terms, I can assure that there's nothing wrong with being an Irish-American or an Italian-American. There are Italian-American societies in the U.S., there are Irish-American clubs. Why the hell can't someone be proud of both their ancestry and their nationality? Why can't someone be proud that they have some ethnicity. Youst because you Wonderbread mother ****ers come from the boring-ass suburbs and have had all culture stripped from you but what you can buy at the store doesn't mean all Americans need to be as bland and as boring as you!

And I think Speer, for once, was bang on!

[Q Classic]

As for hyphen-American terms, I can assure that there's nothing wrong with being an Irish-American or an Italian-American. There are Italian-American societies in the U.S., there are Irish-American clubs. Why the hell can't someone be proud of both their ancestry and their nationality? Why can't someone be proud that they have some ethnicity. Youst because you Wonderbread mother ****ers come from the boring-ass suburbs and have had all culture stripped from you but what you can buy at the store doesn't mean all Americans need to be as bland and as boring as you!

i tend to agree. the problem is, sometimes people focus too much on the x- part and not so much on the american part.

i don't know how often it happens for other ethnicities, but it's frequent with us chinks.

[Az]

Why the hell can't someone be proud of both their ancestry and their nationality? Why can't someone be proud that they have some ethnicity.

Would you say the same thing if a person claimed to be proud of his white ethnicity, by wearing that all favourite 'White Power' T-Shirt.

Is ethnicity good but only when it's a minority ethncity?


Ethnicity is bull****.

[Q Classic]

You know why the words African-American were linked together, because, even today, many people still don't remember that Blacks folks are Americans. Even as late as a decade ago, a survey by the Chicago Tribune found that the majority of white people surveyed didn't think of Black people as Americans and felt that they weern't loyal enough to America.

sweet! something us asians have finally surpassed black people in!

[Japher]

Is ethnicity good but only when it's a minority ethncity?


Ethnicity is bull****.

Preach on my bortha'