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Originally posted by sgtclub
I have a different take. My black friends don't refer to themselves as African American. Their position is that they've never been to Africa and don't relate to that as a descriptive term. They like to be referred to simply as black, if necessary, but really just as friend, or attorney, or whatever.
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I didn't interpret Not Me's post to invite an argument about the superiority of "black" versus "African-American"; I read it as an argument for unilateral disarmament on the part of black Americans in the cultural debate over what they should be called. Because let's face it, white people need to call black people something, and Not Me would just prefer that black people shut up about the whole thing and let us go back to calling them what we called them before the advent of the "divisive" term, African-American.
ETA: The black people I know don't mind being called black. The Carribean-Americans feel strongly against "African-American" as inaccurate vis-a-vis them.
