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Originally posted by Anti.Emotional
Um, most black people? As someone half black with many black friends and family members I know for a fact they would prefer to be called black. African American isn't even right since all blacks aren't African American. Self respecting? The hell are you talking about?
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Considering the imagery the word black brings (dirty, evil, fear) and has represented since slavery, most African Americans (since I'm half African American myself) have winced at being called black for quite sometime now. Black doesn't define my skin color. Nor ANYONE in my family, or most of the African American community. It is a word put upon us in a negative way. Just as Caucasians are called "white" as in (clean, pure, holy). It's not rocket science. If you are ok with being labeled BLACK, that's on you. But I am a mixed African American. Not a Black American.