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Are you "African American" or "Black?"

What color are you?

  • I'm black.

    Votes: 6 6.1%

  • I'm African American.

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • I'm a person of color and you're being too sensitive.

    Votes: 3 3.0%

  • I'm an insensitive cracker.

    Votes: 55 55.6%

  • Persian chicks are the hawtness.

    Votes: 35 35.4%
  • Total voters
    99
theAmazingKickstand said:
I don't take any normal black guys seriously who calls them selves African American.
I lose all respect for them if they claim African American and can't name more than 15 countries in Africa....Most people get 6 or 7.( I could name all of them 3 years ago...and their capitals!(The ones in the textbook at least. Didn't keep up with the countries that were added/destroyed on a weekly basis))
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That's like saying you lose all respect for white guys who call themselves italian or french and then (1) don't know the language (majority) and (2) can't name 15 countries in Europe (wouldn't be too shocked at that either)
 
I have always been against describing myself as African American. I am an American who is Black. I've never been to Africa.

It's sorta like when someone calls me "Sir", I say; "Thank You, but my name is Ed".
 
theAmazingKickstand said:
I don't take any normal black guys seriously who calls them selves African American.
I lose all respect for them if they claim African American and can't name more than 15 countries in Africa....Most people get 6 or 7.( I could name all of them 3 years ago...and their capitals!(The ones in the textbook at least. Didn't keep up with the countries that were added/destroyed on a weekly basis))
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Big of you.
 
lefty said:
It's sorta like when someone calls me "Sir", I say; "Thank You, but my name is Ed".
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Hung like?

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while I am part black I just tell people I am a mutt something that they are not quite sure how to reply to.
 
JesasaurusRex said:
That's like saying you lose all respect for white guys who call themselves italian or french and then (1) don't know the language (majority) and (2) can't name 15 countries in Europe (wouldn't be too shocked at that either)
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While there have only been a few European people I've met that I've asked their lineage, they've all been able to trace their ancestry back to whichever European country they came from within less than three generations. After three generations or so, everyone I've discussed this topic with considers themselves "American." Period. Not white-American, not yellow-American, not black-American. Just American.

Maybe those hyphenated Americans you are referencing don't know their ancestry? Sometimes it's hard to draw the family tree when the father is unknown.

Lex
 
I generally defer to the overly polite description just to indicate that I'm not a total racist, especially if I'm talking to an African American. :p If they start laughing at me then I call them Black. If someone refers to themselves as African American or Black then I follow suit. It's like calling someone "sir" or "ma'am" or Mr. X or Ms. Y--it's not something I do for everyone, but if it's someone I don't know, a formal situation, someone who's considerably older, someone I want to show respect to... Better off playing it a little on the conservative side and then easing up. I also use the formal term, African American, if I'm at the beginning of discussing a race-related issue just to keep things formal. I'll start saying "Blacks" or "Whites" as the talk moves forward. (There's some sort of radio protocol for using the President's name that's similar. I think you're supposed to start off saying "President Obama" or "The President" and then can use Mr. Obama after that. I stick with that type of formula.)
 
If I'm white, they're black. Anything else does not really make a whole lotta sense.


And technically aren't we ALL African-American, sorta? Or was it still Gwondonaland back then?
 
afm199 said:
My black neighbor calls me "you white nigger." I'm not sure what I should say.
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This reminded me of a really shitty thread in the sink, from a few years ago. Anyway, before some strange twist happened in our country's culture, my darker skinned friends use to call me nigger all the time. Well, for obvious reasons, but that's not the point. :laughing

I was lucky to grow up with lots of diversity: Ethnically, economically, educationally, and sexually. So, it has ALWAYS bugged me when I must label an American with a name. Usually it is one they want to be labeled with, like African-American, or Mexican-American. But I don't like it. I really do think America is greatest just being a bunch of Americans who happen to eat lox, or grits, or spaghetti, or tacos. Me - I eat all that stuff. Yummy.
 
I have such a hard time saying the word African American, the only people I ever say that to are white people at my work who are PC, or white people who work in HR who could get me fired.
I've never called someone who is black an African American, I think I've only met one person who's called themselves that, and even they were hardly regarded as someone who was to be taken seriously.
 
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