african-american

the current, acceptable, feminist-certified, polically correct way to refer to anyone of african descent. designed to eliminate any unintended racial tension in this hypersensitive, perpetually offended society we’ve become where people just can’t lighten the f-ck up anymore.
that’s not a poor black guy dressed up as santa claus, that’s an economically disadvantaged african american exercising the right to achieve monetary compensation by commercially benefiting from the eurocentrically imposed midwinter festival”
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a word mistakingly used everyday. im a white guy, and i could technically be a african american if i was born in africa, and thus, immigrate to america.

though black peoples roots are in africa, they themselves were not born there. so that just makes them american, like everyone else born here.
i have a mostly german/scottish/irish/ french background, my roots are in europe, thus am i european american? nah, im just american, because i was born here.
what white people say when they afraid to say black especially when a black person is in the room.
but you know when that black person leaves the room, they say that sh-t w/ some other words too.

tom: my n-gg-aa!! … did you see that black chick w/ that big ol’ booty?!
bob: fo’ shizzle, my n-gg-. i love me some bla–
-black person comes in-
tom: shh, bob!!
black guy: hey, what’re you guys talking about?
tom: oh, nothing. just saw an african american women walk by w/ a rather large rear end, that’s all. -chuckles-
bob: yep, that’s all. -fake laugh-
black guy: you know i don’t get offended if you say black, & not all of us came from africa.
tom: what?! but that’s such a racist term! i would never say that.
bob: never …
black guy: whatever -leaves the room-
tom: so yea, n-gg-a, that black b-tch got a big ol’ booty!!
bob: sheeeit, i just wanna grab that sh-t & spank it!! wooo! -makes spanking motions-
a term wrongly used to give ident-ty to, any black person in america.
african american was actually meant to give an ethnic ident-ty to blacks who are descendants of (black) african slaves who were brought to the united states. this term excludes black jamaicans, nigerians, kenyans, black dominicans,etc…..
some whites, and sometimes other non-blacks are afraid to call us black, so in any professional setting they will say african american. other whites claim it’s unfair, because they won’t get called european american, but really it’s the same thing as calling whites from italy italian, and asians from china chinese. h-ll n-body complains about east asians being called asian, even though not all asians are of the same race.
most african americans can not trace our african roots back to any particular country/tribe so africa is used, as the subst-tute.

oh and that guy who said it more offensive to be called aa than n-gger is a complete dumb-ss
bob: barack obama is the first african american president
terrance: nope, he’s the first kenyan american president.
politically correct term for black people.
‘i’m not frickin’ african american. i’m american. i have never been to africa, and i never want to. i can barely tell you five countries in the stupid place.’

black people aren’t offended by the word ‘black’. only white people are. which makes no sense whatsoever. truthfully, if you came up to me and called me an ‘african american’ then i’d be offended, but if you called me ‘black’ i probably wouldn’t even notice.
a term commonly used to refer to american blacks, who by now are no more african than any other american.
“now they’re calling us african americans,” said bill cosby, “we used to be black.”
a black person of african descent who is now an american native.
black americans who are now citizens or residents of the united states who have origins in any of the black populations of africa. african american.