Black vs. African American

[stxbuck]

White people from South Africa that come to the US are also "African American's"


You ask a German what they are, they say German. An Englishman says he's English. A Swede is a Swede... you ask an American? You get "I'm part this and part that." Thinks about THAT one for a little bit.

Most white people in America can trace their ancestries back to specific European countries-England,Ireland,Ukraine in my case. A black person cannot be that geographically specific. Due to the lack of record keeping by slave traders, all they know is that they came from somewhere on the African continent. I know plenty of people who are very proud of their Irish, German, Italian,etc. heritage-they can celebrate that, whereas, sadly, blacks have to be a bit more generic in their ethnic pride.

 

[IronBuckI]

Was it at the same time?

Sadly, it was not.