[rmd2]

Originally Posted by Mohawksin

Forty years or people started using the term African American. A friend was a great dentist and a fine fellow was light tan and a native from Egypt. He was extremely offended by being included in the group.

Egypt is in Africa.

[sloanst]

If we could only get past group identification and on to the character of the individual.

[Jayhawk]

Originally Posted by Slapnut

It should just be American. That's what we should call ourselves.

Or, here's a leap. How about just "people"?

[coffeebean]

Originally Posted by Clydles1

From the mouth of those in the know, (my teenage grandchild), not all blacks are from Africa, so the term is obsolete. See, they are learning something?

When the term "African American" was in vogue, not all blacks were from Africa. So what is changed now?

[Byte1]

"There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all ... The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic ... There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else."


EXCELLENT!...

[Byte1]

I remember when I was a kid, my folks used the term "colored people." Now, I hear the term "people of color." This is SOOOO confusing.

[nevjudbaker]

It is because they say they are black. Hence BLM. We should stop calling people that black man or that white man just that man.

[fastboat]

They are.

[golfing eagles]

Originally Posted by meridian5850

How about just American?

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Picture this:

A person has just robbed a convenience store at gunpoint and killed the cashier. A witness gives a description to the police. The perp is described as a white male, limiting the suspect pool to about 38% of the population. He is further described as over 70 years of age, white hair and a white beard. We're now down to 2-3% of the population. Was that description racist?, sexist?, age discriminatory? Now the police do not have to stop 20 year old clean shaven black men.

Now reverse the scenario, why would an equally accurate description be racist and sexist???? Imagine a person hunt where the only description was "American" or "a citizen" or "human".

Originally Posted by rmd2

Egypt is in Africa.

I have traveled to Egypt, and even though they are in Africa, they prefer to be refered to as Egyptian. I won’t go into the political and religious details of it all. We might be a bit different in that our religous beliefs are not as much a part of our ethinic identity here. And so, since we call ourselves American all the time, being called North American is not that big a deal to us. But I bet Egyptian-Americans would likely just prefer to be called Americans too.

[MJY10101]

Perhaps it’s because they are not African but are American. Because of the state of racism in the world, the term black has been adopted by all.

[Curtisbwp]

My grandparents hail from Kilkenny Ireland..i am an American. My grandparents are Irish Americans. My friend Enrico copolla has italian Americans parents but rico is 100% American. NEVER do we say we are Euripean Americans. I believe black Americans is the appropiate term. Ther are so many countries in Africa and such a muttled past that very few black Americans actually know what country they are from. Hensforth "black American" is the correct term to use.
Imo

Originally Posted by coffeebean

Every single post on this forum I read about our current events and the protestors speak of "blacks" and not once have I read the term "African Americans". Seems to me that PC term has gone by the wayside. Is this because the BLM movement has sort of wiped out the PC terminology?

Also....must say I have not seen that PC term "African American" in news print, on line or stated in news broadcasts. They are referred to as "black"!

[charlieo1126@gmail.com]

Originally Posted by Velvet

I was always a little surprised by the term African American because there was no use of European American. But, I think people should be allowed to chose whatever term they like to refer to themselves. My problem is with propaganda, if BLM is using Marxism or Communism as a model, then I have a real problem with that.

but all across USA plenty of Polish, French , German Spanish American clubs . I could go get but you see my point. All people at sometime in life have found connections to there Mother Country so why not African Americans ? The people who are using PC to describe the the use of the words African American by African Americans makes this writer think they are part of the problem and not part of the solution ( see number 3 message also ) lol

[Jim1mack]

Exactly.

[fdpaq0580]

Originally Posted by golfing eagles

Picture this:

A person has just robbed a convenience store at gunpoint and killed the cashier. A witness gives a description to the police. The perp is described as a white male, limiting the suspect pool to about 38% of the population. He is further described as over 70 years of age, white hair and a white beard. We're now down to 2-3% of the population. Was that description racist?, sexist?, age discriminatory? Now the police do not have to stop 20 year old clean shaven black men.

Now reverse the scenario, why would an equally accurate description be racist and sexist???? Imagine a person hunt where the only description was "American" or "a citizen" or "human".

I tried, in an earlier post, to make this same point. When asked to describe an individual, for any reason, if we can't use descriptive terms (tall, short, thin, heavy, white, black), then there is no description. As for American, how do you know unless they show you their ID? Just because you can recognize that a difference in race, culture, gender, age exists doesn't automatically make one prejudiced. Those who think it does, are imHo, just might be prejudiced themselves.

Stay safe. Stay well. Peace!