In regards to being PC, do you agree the Media has gone to far, in regard to using the term Afro American???

Question

It seems the media will automatically refer to any black person as Afro American. To do so, you need to know the nationality of such individual to use that term. Have you noticed, a news paper may indicate "..pictured are two young afro american children playing..." or on the TV news, ..'the suspect was a middle aged african americn male....Blacks are not exclusive to america, these people they're identifying may come from the UK, or West Indies, Canada, France, Cuba, or even from an African country!! If so, then the term African America would be incorrect to use for these individuals! I understand black people may not want to be referred to as black, because no one is actually black in color. But, we use the term white all the time, and the same applies, there are no real "white" people...

The label is so lame even a white person could use the label of being Afro American. How? Suppose white missionaries from the U.S., are working in Africa, when their children are born. Later they move back to the U.S, and there you hv it, their children are African American, but they're WHITE !!!

Answer 1

I completely agree with you, and think that it has gone too far. Being PC about everything is just too much. If people are really THAT sensitive about things, they need to grow a thicker skin. Referring to all black people as Afro American is causing stereotyping. Enough with all the PC bs already!

Answer 2

Sometimes I feel like everybody's gone too far with it. Growing up I was a "society tutor" for students from other countries, teaching them about how American schools were different and what we did. I had four classmates from Africa, and only one was black.

Unfortunately, a lot of the alternative terms have negative connotations attached to them, although most of the terms have legitimate counterparts describing color in foreign languages..