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Black? I thought they liked African American? Is them using the word black racist?

If a white person was born in Africa and emigrated to the U.S., wouldn't they be "African-American?"

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If a white person was born in Africa and emigrated to the U.S., wouldn’t they be “African-American?”
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Not racially.

African American is a description of a race in the employment context, not a where you were born.