African American, African American

It's black, obviously.

 

Not brown? Bit clashing

 

Haha, I like you VM

 

Yellow, brown? Make up your mind.

 

Hey youre cool too:cheers2:

 

Yeah you totally missed it

 

Really, did I?

 

Yep

 

That's so hypocritical. This is the second thread I've seen of yours on the topic of the term African American.

I've yet to see a single thread coming from you expounding upon your profound distaste for terms such as European, white, Italian-Americans, or Asian-Americans for that matter. And let us not forget Native Americans- they were various ethnicities too.

The fact is that some people feel threatened by difference.

 

Yep, and some just want to look BEYOND physical difference...like eye colour, hair colour, skin colour or family tree, and start looking at what matters. THATS humility, thats understanding and thats acceptance of us all

 

obama is more white than black
for realz

 

Well exactly. If you wanted to go down the whol" but omgz his heritage!" route youd surely have to extend the prefix, to something like "African American but also half European American half brown half white and threfore makes a kind of middle of the road light browny colour and like all of us who knows what else is in his genetic makeup"...more to the point, does it matter as much as people are making out? Of course not

 

Whites do that routinely: "I'm half German, a third Irish, a quarter French, and an eighth Russian", etc.

That's pride in your heritage and it's all good.

But when it comes to someone of African descent, you guyses get your pants in a tizzy and it's racism, segregation, etc.

 

I think the term Africa American is in deference to the fact that many African Americans who live in the USA today are descended from the Africans who were captured and taken from their country to be slaves in the good old US of A.

 

YES!

And it's a reality that makes many white Americans oh so insecure.

 

Very well said.

 

Ok so you like your boxes, no use trying to talk you out of it Im always going to be a "white", and therefore probably insecure because Im saying colour doesnt matter, right?

Just ask yourself this-Why do you think oppression, salvery etc ever gained power in the first place? Because people couldnt see beyond the colour of someones skin, perhaps?

 

I don't care what race obama belongs to, he is sexy. His big ears and deep, booming voice makes me hard.

 

Gosh, you have all the answers

 

This will probably be my last post addressing you directly on this topic because I feel we might go around in circles:

"Color blindness" (and I'm not talking about skin-color but history and culture), in my experience (I am of African descent) is not enough of an acknowledgement of my humanity. Yes, I am human and share that much with all humans- but I also have a distinct historical and cultural background.

People are so used to associating difference with inhumanity, that their little minds won't wrap around the possibility that people have their differences AND similarities. I am human. But I am a human of a specific historical and cultural background. No contradiction there.

Slavery was an economic system dating back as far as human history. In the Americas, before using African slaves, European colonizers tried white women and natives.

Racism was invented much later as a way to justify what was happening to those Europeans who were shocked by slavery- especially the Catholic Church. It's inhumane, yes, but that's ok because they are not human or only partially human, etc. So it's like using cattle.

Racism is a rationalization not a cause. Europeans have always noted differences in skin pigmentation and hair color among themselves - between Nordics and Italians, for instance - and yet that has never led to slavery based on those differences.