It's not like each and every black person is a decendant of Africa or those that insist on being called it have traced their heritage. I don't hear other people saying Polish American, Italian American, Irish American etc.
2006-11-22 12:34:11 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
I guess I should be called then African German? Never heard that one before. But I don't mind either African American or black, I usually use black. I don't know what the big problem is for white people to call us black? We call you white (even though you are more light-pinkish) and we are not really black but different shades of brown, so what's the big issue?
White people, it is not a crime to say "Black" or "African American". Just don't call us "Colored" people, we are not in the 60s. That's all. I always have to laugh when white people look at me and ask me, is it ok if I say "African American" or black. Please, come on, do black people really get upset about that?
2006-11-22 13:06:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not all black people, I would prefer the term black but if you called me African American I'm not going to make a scene or a big deal about it; why do some white people want to be called Caucasian? How many could actually trace their heritage or lineage back to the Caucas Mountains or even know anything about it like where it is or was and if it even still exists?
2006-11-22 12:45:25 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
For some its the politically correct to say african american, instead of just black. But I personally don't care either way. I just don't like when some people say black for every dark skinned person they see. Because there are some people that are from the west indies and caribbean, that prefer to be known as where they are from. Because those islands all broke up a long time ago and some of those places have had fights between them, so they prefer to be known by their region instead of their skin color.
2006-11-22 15:48:30 · answer #3 · answered by Bloody Kisses 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Which black people? I don't insist on being called african american and I never heard of anyone else insisting it .... I swear some of you meet a few blacks saying something and you think it is all of us
2006-11-22 16:01:07 · answer #4 · answered by micheleh29 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think all do. Those hyphenated terms are all kind of BS. Some black people migrated to the US from Africa, some from the Caribbean, and hey, there are even Australian aboriginals with similar complexions. Us white folks are hardly exclusively European either, we live everywhere and there are generations of white people in eastern Russia (i.e. Siberia), which lies wholly in Asia...so I guess they're Asians, right?
2006-11-22 12:56:53 · answer #5 · answered by LeytonKeeley 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Before approximately 1977 blacks had been brainwashed by and made ashamed to be called African by whites. After the movie Roots came out it became acceptable and a thing of pride to be associated with mother Africa.
2015-05-05 00:59:58 · answer #6 · answered by I 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've always wondered this myself. I don't insist on being called a European American or a Causasian American. I'm fine with being called "white".
2006-11-22 12:46:45 · answer #7 · answered by cardinalfanusa 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ii have a Black neighbor who insists on being called Jamaican.
I you haven't heard the other Hypenated terms, you haven't really been paying attention. They are used regularly.
2006-11-22 12:46:31 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
to be honest, black people i know don't want ot be called African American, they just want to be called black.
2006-11-22 13:48:39 · answer #9 · answered by Jessie 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋