Posted on 06/18/2012 9:13:49 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Just think of yourself as being an American, period.
If your not just an “American”, then go where you feel more comfortable...
I cringed when they (Jackson?) came out with the term African-American, and thought it sounded so stupid.
Negro had been the correct term for many years, and accepted
by blacks, as in The United NEGRO College Fund.
In my youth, being from Memphis, we used the term “colored”. I do not recall anyone taking offense with colored.
Perhaps the use of the word “American” is the problem for these people?
Are white people from Africa who become Americans African Americans? If not then what would they be called to identify their origins and current status?
I am ‘me’. Child of God. FREE to choose.
How ‘bout them apples?
Whatever you do don’t call me late for supper.
I never concerned myself with skin color. It is only character that counts to me. Marxists and thieves and parasites on society do not score high with me.
By Shahida Muhammad. Hey Shahida, I can’t even pronounce your name! Color me confused. To me, if you were born or naturalized here your an American, period. The color of your skin is irrelevant. Call yourself whatever you wish, but please make up your mind about it because I am tired of your being perpetually offended. While you’re at it, be a fellow American and quit voting for the socialists who are destroying this great country with class and racial warfare, eh?
Who cares? Just pull your weight, don’t expect handouts, and I could care less what race you are.
Henceforth I will refer to myself as an Anasazi-American even though it is only a small fraction of my bloodline.
I always thought of the hypenated American as stupid. MLK tried to bring us together as one, today everyone has a hypenated American came. Signed, Overweight, heterosexual, diabetic Euro Asian causcasian -American
Always confused me when I was young too. We're all 'colored' in one way or another. ;~))
It's kind of stupid what we do to torture words.
I forgot to as anti big government - American
“what would they be called to identify their origins and current status?”
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Well, many immigrants did, and still do, use their country of origin, most notably Irish-Americans.
With the blacks, very few know anything of their origins.
Obama, however, might list himself as Kenyan-American.
So, a white from South Africa would be a South African-American?
Negro, simply meaning black in Spanish, had to be discarded by those of Jackson’s ilk because it was used during the slave era. It wasn’t the only name used then for blacks, but it was the most polite.
Wish I could find the reference, but in 1956, or thereabouts, I read an article saying that most blacks have white ancestors and, more surprisingly, about a third of Southern white have a black one. Then there are those who also have indian ancestery thrown into the mix. I am reminded of all the effort that the Spanish imquistion out into investigating family back grounds to prove they had no Jewish blood. The reality being that most do. Pick out a Southern man on the street: he is likely a mixture of red, white and black, in varying proportions.
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