Would someone please explain to me why we’re supposed to call black people “African-Americans?” I would guess that next to none of them is actually from Africa, and it’s been more than a hundred years since their ancestors came from there.
Plus, probably lots of their ancestors didn’t come from Africa. I also know that no one calls me a “European-American,” though my ancestors are from Germany and Ireland. Why do black people get a title and I don’t?
I seem to remember a time in the 1960s when the catchphrase was “black is beautiful.” Now, all of a sudden, it must not be so beautiful, because we are not politically correct if we call black people “black.”
White is white, black is black, the same for red and yellow and brown.
Colors are only colors, and I think that when we are expected (for reasons I do not comprehend) to hyphenate the word “American” with where people are supposedly from, it does nothing but cause divisiveness among us. We are all Americans, and that’s the only thing that matters.