Black communists tried to change the English language just like gay communists are trying to do today with pronouns. It's a classic tactic of communists during every attempt at revolution to divide people. The message is If you belong to Africa, you don't don't really belong to America. You'll never be fully American. Black people did that to themselves to brainwash their own people into feeling like victims so that they could provoke civil war.
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Because we decided to call ourselves ONE thing and stuck with it, unlike blacks.
They didn't like "Nlgger" they said they wanna be called "Negro" so we did. Then they said "Negro" is offensive and they wanna be called "black" so we did. Then they decided that "black" is offensive and they wanna be called "African-American".
White people just feel American, and don't feel as connected with their ancestral roots as "African-Americans". But I guess "African-Americans" are proud of their Africaness, and they wanna be African, but in America where they aren't dieing of AIDS and starvation.
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Because most Americans are mixed race and not "European". Nor are they "Native Americans". Thus neither fish nor fowl, and all that.
As for Blacks, nearly all of them were of African slave stock who were freed from slavery. But many South Americans in America are dark skinned, but not African.
its' very confusing to me and I no longer try to keep up:
Colored: Offensive
People of Color: OK
The Blacks: Offensive
Black: OK
Use of black culture in commercials: Offensive
Not putting enough blacks in commercials: Offensive
I got no chance of this ever making sense of this. Me keeping up with the latest changes, impossible.
European settler killed all (or almost all) native americans and became the majority. And to different themselves from the slaves or children/and children of children of former slaves they declared them to be African American.
Because most white Americans are proud of who they are. This is our identity. Most black people (understandably) feel the system doesn't work for them the same as white people. So therefore they call themselves African Americans to denote that they didn't immigrate to the United States in search of a better life. And that the name is appropriate until the struggle is complete until they get thier fair and equal OPPORTUNITY same as white people.
That's a solid question. I'm more curious why some boys are born with a long foreskin and some girls grow up to have big mud flaps/ roast beef vulvas. Isn't that so unfair 😢
Because of political correctness. Blacks used to be called "negroes" before, then changed to "black" now it's AA. Whites are called PC "Caucasian".
I never call them African Americans. Refer to them as Blacks or Black Americans.
Because black throw a hissy fit about the word "black" when they were the ones that asked to be called black back in the civil rights era!
Dark skinned (or light skinned) people should never be called "African Americans", or "European Americans".
Ask the stupid labelers lol I'm not African
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