do you like the term "African-American"?

Question

i mean after all, Dave Mattews is "African-American". second part do you think the fact that i am white should have prevented me from asking the question?

Answer 1

No, it is a separatist term, and no you should be allowed to ask any question regardless of color.

Answer 2

I, as a black woman, can honestly say that I can do without the term African-American. Black people in America needs to understand that we didn't originate in America and it's not our home. Africa is where we originated, I mean, since we were taken from our home, Europeans of America decided to make us African Americans. Like the answer says above mine they call include American after African or Mexican while they just call white people white not Caucasion American. White people weren't originated here either, so why are they considered American.

Answer 3

I hate the term African-American. My family came from Switzerland, but I don't call myself a Swiss-American. It would make me sound like a deli-tray from Walmart. They are Americans; nothing more, nothing less. The term African-American reeks of racism, in my opinion. The black community holds the term African-American up as a totem that should cause people to act in a different way than just the word American.

Answer 4

I wish, no I hope, that the day will come when we are all just American rather than african-american, mexican-american, asian -american etc. While I have respect for any individuals culture or roots, I think that it is most important that we are all americans and that diversity is what makes our country strong. The ethnic or racial makeup should make no difference - last I heard we all bleed red.

Answer 5

I don't like or dislike it, it is simply a way to describe a person's heritage. You are entitled to ask anything you like, as far as I am cocerned, as long as you are respectable about it. Being white should have nothing to do with it. Most Arabs are white and many are also African. If they move to the US, they are then considered African-American.

Answer 6

Do you like the term European-American?

Answer 7

I prefer "American of African decent," but that is too verbose to catch on. I think you have a right to ask that question, why not?

Answer 8

no, their just black people, african american is so long winded, and is blatantly just difficultly politically correct. i think black is sympathetic compared to ****èr and there is a festival where i live where everyone darkens their face with paint called darkie day :S with morris dancing and jam stalls and stuff, but the government is trying to stop it, even though it dates back hundreds of years (this is rural england btw, not the streets of new york, we would be killed already by now)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/4337475.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/4603886.stm

Answer 9

no. Africa is a Continent.