Ok, I’m old. Surely Whoopi (who is my age) knows WHY they are called African Americans! They have jerked us around so many darn times. Here’s how it went down: in the sixties they told us to call them African Americans because they weren’t wanted and respected here and they came from Africa and Africa’s a beautiful place they were stolen from, then it went to, no, call us “Black” because “Black Power” and “Black is Beautiful!” and “don’t you Whiteys try and make us ashamed of our Blackness and Afros” and all that, and we said OK and started calling them Blacks and all of a sudden it was “African American” again and we fell in line. Make up your effing minds or better yet, leave us alone.