You’re Not African, You’re a Black American
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- Black-to-Black The Difference Between African Americans in the US and the UK
- Differences Between Black and White People in the UK
- UK Blacks Questions for African-Americans
- You’re Not African, You’re a Black American
- African Americans Have Nicer Complexions
- African Americans are Patriotic
- African Americans Like Bland Food
- Did African Americans want to go to war
- African Americans Can Not Act West Indian
- African Americans Have Better Food
- Black Muslims and the Nation of Islam
- African Americans are Lazy
- African Americans Have Specialty Products
- African Americans are Economically Progressive
- West Indians Have it Better in the Americas
- African Americans Don’t Care About Other Africans
- African Americans Don’t Have Health Insurance
- African Americans and Intraracial Discrimination
- Are Historically Black Universities, HBCUs Progressive
- Hazing in Black Greek Sororities and Fraternities
- African American and Native American Relationships
- African Americans Have More Opportunity
Based on a small survey that was done in the UK, Xina has composed a list of questions for African-Americans. Please feel free to comment and let us know your thoughts.
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QUESTION
“Why are African-Americans called ‘African’ Americans? They are black people – what, besides their blackness, do they have in common with Africans?” — SFG
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September 1st, 2009 at 7:16 PM
The term ‘African-American’ stems from government’s (and some advocates) desires to become “politically correct” as words like ‘black’ and ‘indian’ were seen to be derogatory and culturally insensitive phrases like “African-American” and “Native-American” took hold in the American vernacular. Still, there are number of blacks and many more West Indians who do not like being ‘demographized’ as African-American.
December 9th, 2009 at 6:31 PM
Firstly, because our ancestors come from Africa and there are elements of [various] African cultures reflected in African-American culture.
Secondly, our skin color is not BLACK it is [mostly] brown, yellow, tan, ivory etcetera.
Third, the color black has often been associated with evil and the people who coined the term wanted to divorce the negative connotations of the word from the people.
Most of us do not mind being called black, but African-American is a more precise term to describe black people in America.
May 18th, 2010 at 4:12 PM
Like the person above me mentioned, our culture is laced and mixed with many African elements from foods, traditions, music…I mean, what were you expecting considering that (Africa) is where we orginated from?