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Tilted Cat Head
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Location: Manhattan, NY
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Originally Posted by dd3953
The person who wrote that forgot one (very important) thing. African Americans are NOT the people who gave themselves that label. Same as Native Americans.
Every "African American" I know (myself included) calls themselves "Black" because the giver of labels have not felt yet inclined to label us "Americans." We reject "African American" for the same reasons the writer gives. We are not African - not anymore.
However, we could be called "Americans formally known as Stolen Africans."
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That may be the method for African Americans, but Filipino Americans, Vietnamese Americans, Chinese Americans, the ones that I know all seem to have self labeled.
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