I hate the term "African American"

ALL of Europe from the Alps West were Celtic lands at one time. The Celts swarmed over the Alps into what is now the Po valley in Italy in the 4th century BC, in such great numbers that they displaced the entire Etruscan nation. They originated in the area between Constantinople (Turkey) and Syria. That's a pretty big range.

So saying you came from the Celtic lands means zippy, people. You can't apply "Celtic" to Ireland and Scotland alone.

 

Now you guys just have good healthcare and ironically beautiful swimsuit models with bad beaches.

 

Dude, you're just never gonna get it.

 

Ill take what I can get.

 

O.K. Then I'm Celtic(as in time period) Irish and Swedish. The rest is some douche bag Scribe for a English king and some Native American dude.

 

No, YOU are obviously never gonna get what I'm saying.

 

I don't have to get anything- it's not up to you to decide how others identify themselves.

Put that in your pipe and smoke it. iggy:

 

you footbulleted yourself.

it's okay

move on

 

Just tell me one thing, please. Can you understand what I'm saying? Can you see it from my pov?

 

I said something like that back on page 1, Cherea. Or thereabouts. Good luck. Beauty is only skin deep but stupid goes through and through.

 

must be the call of the valkyries, must be


Hotwater

 

I like your tone better now.

But, no. Sorry- I still don't understand why is it that my ancestry should be ignored in identifying myself ethnically.

My great-greats were Africans (5 generations). Just like other people's great-greats were Irish, Italian, Scandinavian, or whatever.

 

So your calling me beautiful? At least I get a compliment next to my insult.

 

Just giving you the benefit of the doubt, brother.

 

Because ancestry has nothing to do with it.

Just because your black doesn't mean your African, and just because your African doesn't mean your black. There are many white Africans, especially in South Africa.

Say I have a friend who just moved here from some small African country, and he also happens to be black. I would say(only after he had a citizenship) that he was African American.

Now I also have a friend from Seattle, hes black... He is just an American, or if you have some specific reason to know, hes a black American. He isn't African American because he isn't from Africa.

I'm not a European American because I wasn't born in Europe, if I had a friend who moved here from lets just say Stockholm, I could technically say he is European American.

Please at least say you kind of get the way I'm thinking.

 

I do get your thinking. But it seems to me you're getting caught-up in semantics-

There are two things that jump up to me from what you've posted:

1) that the term african-american makes you angry. Something to be examined---

2) That ancestry has "nothing to do with it" --- which makes me think that you're thinking racially-

Race doesn't exist- historical and cultural background does. To me what's important is not that I be called this or that- so long as my historical and cultural background is acknowledged.

What's important is not that my skin is this way or that, or my hair, or my lips- what's important is that my great-greats were African slaves brought to a mining state in Brazil.

That tells you more about myself than some physical stereotype---

 

Explain away, but they’ll never understand



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As a blonde, I am met with a buttload of prejudice everyday. Its a tough battle for us too.

 

Touché



Hotwater