If Blacks want a colorblind society, why don't they insist on being addressed as American or as just a person

Question

Or is it even up to them? Do African migrants in Europe call themselves Senagalese Dutchmen or Mauritanian Germans?

Answer 1

I am black and classify my self as such. Teach my children they are not African Americans and if its on an application/any type of form that ask about race I simply put Black and check other. I'll never be considered as African American. Whites can be African American. I'm a black American

Answer 2

"The term hyphenated American is an epithet from the early 20th century to refer to Americans who consider themselves of a distinct cultural origin other than the United States, and who claim to hold allegiance to both."
-Anonymous, Wikipedia

"Any man who carries a hyphen about with him carries a dagger that he is ready to plunge into the vitals of this Republic whenever he gets ready."
-President Woodrow Wilson

"There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all. ... The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic. ... There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else."
- Theodore Roosevelt, who hosted the famous Booker T Washington in the White House, marking the first person of African ancestry to dine in the house of our nation's leader.

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Now, with the hyphenated stance out of the way. I don't care what color one's skin is, whether they have boobies, or are the descendant of Moses, Mohammed, or Lao Tze... If you're an American, you're an American. End of story.

Answer 3

some do- and its not up to them. newpapers, tv, and other people are accustom to calling someone african american or black. some do this even when asked to stop- more out of habit than trying to anger someone.

and yes in other countries where there is more of one race than there is of another people are indentified by their color.

when that one woman was accidently impregnanted with the 2 different men's sperm at a fertility clinic and had ferternal twins- one black and one white- people wrote her asking to take her 'brown' baby. she was from europe and her child was clearly distigushed as the 'brown baby'

Answer 4

This is hardly confined to the Black community. We are self Balkanizing by making ourselves hyphenated Americans. The multi-culti crowd has told us that it is more important to be something other than Americans, another sign of possible ways we will ruin ourselves from within instead of being destroyed by an external enemy.

Answer 5

it's called too much political correctness. it's making us a nation of panzies. there seems to be a lack of NATIONAL pride, regardless of your ethnic background. The media has a huge part in this. The ACLU has a huge part in this.

Answer 6

it is the "whites" who decided to call them "black" or "african americans" in the first place.....so why dont the "whites" insist on calling them "americans" ? its them who started it in the first place.

only in america do they associate people with a hyphen or by color.

Answer 7

They don't. It's the "people in charge of the media" who do. Smarter & prouder blacks are aware of this.

Answer 8

Good for you! Right on!

Answer 9

double standard.