[Graybeard58]

Those recent immigrants from Somalia may know the difference but maybe not the "African Americans", whose ancestors may or may not have come from Africa.

[MrB]

So, let’s work out the de facto definition of “African American”, since obviously it isn’t “an american of african origin”...

Just from observation, what I can tell from their self definition is this:
“a person with skin ‘darker than a paper bag’ whose cultural tendencies tend to be aligned with that of the urban, anti-Western Civilization thug”?