African American = Black only. What about the non-Blacks?

Question

Although most Amercian Blacks are indeed decendants of African slaves, not all are.

Also, there are some white people (ie Charlize Theron, Steve Nash) who actually grew up there and now live in the USA and truly are African-American.

Should the name be abolished to describe American Blacks?

Oops, sorry about the Steve Nash reference. Yes, he grew up in Canada.

Answer 1

Yes, it would be very nice to just be an American if you were born here. Putting something in front of it is ridiculous since a lot of people do have very diverse backgrounds.

Answer 2

Kind of reminds me of mexican american... One thing I don't like is when people automatically call you mexican even if you're born here in the US. I constantly argue the fact that I'm hispanic and not mexican and alot of people say "That's the same thing" when it's not. Mexicans are born in mexico and have mexican decendants. Hispanics are born anywhere else and have mexican or spanish decendants. And my mexican decendants are so far behind me I don't even know who they are. But what would you call African Americans if you can't call them blacks, or the 'n' word? What is the correct term for a black person as a group? Because I know some black people who don't like to be called black. They're not black, they're brown anyways.

Answer 3

well steve nash grew up in canada, and its just a term. like hispanics, which is a broad term because we come in many different colors like black hispanics from Cuba or Colombia and mestizo mixed with spaniards and indignous people or even white, remember people from spain are considered white.

Answer 4

why should we abolish a name because of a few people that don't add up to nothing but a handful,besides black people are the ones who have the last say on what to call ourselves.

Answer 5

I completely agree with you. Besides, nobody ever came to me and asked, . . . . . What do you wanna be called??????? Better yet my name is a good idea.

Abolish it all together, along with other words like B . . . . N . . . . . "W . . Tr . . . " all the things that were never intended to be nice words and cannot be explained otherwise.

Call me my Name.

Thanks for asking

Answer 6

The correct description for a person with dark
skin is usually "*******" which means (get ready
for it ... Dark skin). It is a racial description
similar to Mongoloid and Caucasoi (Yellow and
White).

However, "*******" is close enough to other
"N" words that it scares people.

African-American describes someone's history,
not their race.

Attempts to make it otherwise are doomed
to confusion.

Answer 7

I would sincerely desire that labels be less of an issue. Can't we devote our energies to more pressing issues?

Answer 8

I really couldn't care less what N iggers are calling themselves these days.

Answer 9

abolished? how you gonna do that?