Why can white people be called white, but black people have to be african american.

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rolly187

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Why can white people be called white, but black people have to be african american.
Pretty simple. I just find myself wondering this everyday in my sociology class, and it starts to bug me.

Help me understand. but please dont say cause white people had black people as slaves or something like that. we all know american history and no one likes slavery of anyone elce.
so keep it kinda clean if you can.

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mindphuk

mindphuk

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You should call black people black. African American is a PC term coined by Jesse Jackson and doesn't even reflect reality. I know quite a few African Americans and they are all white South Africans and a handful of black people, mostly from the Caribbean, that don't identify themselves with Africa and hate it when people call them AA.
 
Dizzle Frost

Dizzle Frost

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heres a better one...why is some one who is half african and half white called black? i never figured that one out .....we should all be the same color
 
Ringsixty

Ringsixty

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Why Why Why have we become so PC about everything is my question... nothing to do with black or white. Have we all become sheep?
 
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stak

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I have never and will never refer to someone as an African-American unless they can tell me where in Africa they're from.
 
budlover13

budlover13

King Tut
mindphuk said:
You should call black people black. African American is a PC term coined by Jesse Jackson and doesn't even reflect reality. I know quite a few African Americans and they are all white South Africans and a handful of black people, mostly from the Caribbean, that don't identify themselves with Africa and hate it when people call them AA.
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But they are varying shades of brown.? Never have really understood that.
 
darkdestruction420

darkdestruction420

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but black people have to be african american.
says who? i refer to black people i know as black people and they refer to us as whites in this sort of context. doesnt mean we dislike or disrespect each other, we are what we are.
 
budlover13

budlover13

King Tut
darkdestruction420 said:
but black people have to be african american.
says who? i refer to black people i know as black people and they refer to us as whites in this sort of context. doesnt mean we dislike or disrespect each other, we are what we are.
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Amen brother. But i think it comes from not calling Native Americans "Redskins" and other PC issues. Technically, i should be called a White American if i were going to bring race into it. My PERSONAL opinion is that we are all Americans so why distinguish further? Race.
 
Dizzle Frost

Dizzle Frost

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darkdestruction420 said:
but black people have to be african american.
says who? i refer to black people i know as black people and they refer to us as whites in this sort of context. doesnt mean we dislike or disrespect each other, we are what we are.
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all my black buddies say there black......i agree the world is way to PC anymore

i jus found out Oriental is not PC to say anymore, its Asians ...i never knew that
 
budlover13

budlover13

King Tut
Dizzle Frost said:
all my black buddies say there black......i agree the world is way to PC anymore

i jus found out Oriental is not PC to say anymore, its Asians ...i never knew that
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LOL! i just learned this not too long ago with an Oriental, i mean "Asian" friend. SMH.
 
Chem Dawg

Chem Dawg

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Me personally I like to call people by there name.. But it's funny because when I was in high school I always argued with my math teacher who was also black about the whole African American thing.. I consider myself to be a Black American . If you dropped a black person from America off in Africa the black people in Africa would treat us like shit. So I personally choose not to be considered a African American, but a Black American.. But that's just Me!
 
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