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Kiri Davis

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[7tnorris]

hehe true. I think you will see the term "African American" fade away in the next few decades, just like the terms "negro" and "colored" did (which were once PREFERRED by black Americans. The term "BLACK" was once considered offensive!)

Many people in the world think the Americans are retarded for using the term "African - American" . It is interesting that the term itself is supporting a STEREOTYPE in the USA that everyone in Africa is black, which is ridiculous.

[7tnorris]

I am presuming you are talking about white friends. I think if you investigated it further you would find that they are "choosing" their heritage and picking the ones that they find most appealing to them. I am an old white man and I laugh when people start telling me their family lines saying they are 1/4 this and 1/8 that when I know that it is all a bunch of  baloney. Past is nothing, only shadows - the important things are your family now and in the future.

[AleaFails]

but you know you're German... that's the whole point. You're not like "I'm pretty sure Europe somewhere"

[Jewlene Bellamy]

I wish Black females could bond and empower each other more on this subject. Especially

this in this time and age!

[paolapai]

murricans and their obsession with race lol

[joan Jones]

The best looking coolest girls in the world are the ones that are happy with what they are born with and like everyone based on if they are just nice people because we all are going to be old ladies eventually anyway and life is just too short to ever base anything on shallow stuff. Learn, grow, love and enjoy one another.

[goshdangheck]

I'm of german heritage, but I know fuck all about my "heritage"

[ihopveggan]

the first europeans were not white, but whites are from europe eventually. anyways i am black and i have no idea why they tell me i am african american. what do u think we should call ourseleves

[iamthesupremesamurai]

European-Americans an option and choose not to. It is about having the option; this is what freedom in America affords in all other avenues. This is similar to the confusion a person who was adopted has. When you don't know anything about your past you are constantly searching for it and would like the option to just call yourself an American. A shadow over your identity is not a denial of who you are today, but a deeper understanding of how your family came to be an American.

[tmhjahusa]

They really mean that they are Americans of African descent. I suppose you have never heard of Italian Americans, Polish Americans, Irish Americans, etc., etc. With all due respect, you are ignorant! As Malcolm X said, "If a cat has babies in the oven, you do not call the babies biscuits."

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@Bluntples

Part 1: Of course you think it is pointless and counterproductive for the black people of America to identify with Africans because you're not black and therefore, have no knowledge/experience of blackness in America or the world at large. Black people and White people do not live in the same America as you might have imagined. In a land where black people are at best tolerated;

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@Bluntples

Part 2: it is important to them to have their own identity that, they as black people have chosen, rather than an identity assigned to them by mainstream (White) America. Your past is important for it formed your present and thus the African heritage is important to Black America. White America has no need to refer to themselves as European Americans;