African-American???

This is part of the PC politics. You identify people by groups and then pit one against the other. Blacks against whites, old against younger, Men against women, gays against straights, etc. We are all americans and need the same rights.

I like my coffee like I like my Man (creamy, sweet, and delicious!) I always wondered why we say African American, too. I would be misidentified completely if being ID'd by judging ethnicity. go 'head, You can guess if you wanna! Totally cant tell!

Cream and sugar.. This is an emotional thing, not a logical thing...

I have no answer for you, I've often wondered it myself. I like my coffee with Vanilla creamer and splenda.

And what about all the WHITE people in Africa (they do exist), if they come here and naturalize and have kids, they would be REAL "African-Americans" even though they are not black!

Are you want to discuss about African-American or coffee?.Well, i'm proud to be Malaysian. Malaysia Boleh!.

That is true though..Maybe it should be voted on. That way it gives people the choice of what they are to be called. I also think they could come up with a different word then Caucasian to...How do I like my coffee? I like my coffee with cream and sugar in it..and sometimes French Vanilla flavoring..

When I commit a crime, I want them to say a german, polish, french - American. This is how ridiculous this has become. for cryin out loud, call em white. Also, I am not a Caucasian I have no ancestors from Caucasus Mountains.

This annoys me, Sconibear. The fact that anybody has to be referred to as anything BUT American annoys me. It's one thing if that particular person WANTS to be referred to as 'purple-smokes-onions-american' but the average person just likes American, or perhaps their NAME. I also see no issue with black or white, so using those as descriptive terms is fine by me. If I were black, I would prefer to be mentioned as such, and NOT 'african american' because um sorry, there is little to no chance I would actually be african. I also don't like other terms, like 'indian-american' and 'asian-american' because it takes away from the fact that someone is just AMERICAN. Hello, if you live here, that's what you are if you're a citizen, right? I mean I hear about people who have dual citizenship in Canada and America and also perhaps England and America, but we don't go about calling those people 'Canadian-American' and English-American, do we? It also seems strange that people want to draw attention to being something specific. Everybody is ALREADY different, why draw attention to things for no reason. GAH. I hate it. I hate it. I HATE IT. And.. for the record, there are black people who are ENGLISH as in being from the UK, and I think they'd be highly offended they were referred to as 'african american' LOL! I take my coffee with flavored creamer most of the time. I don't like black coffee. LOL!

There was a time when African-Americans wanted to be called Negro and you were insulting them if you called them black. My parent's generation called them Colored people. My generation called them blacks because that's what they wanted. Now they want to be called African-Americans. I think changing from colored to black was to show the nation that they were proud to be black. "Say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud." Remember that, or are you too young? Then many African-Americans got an urge to visit their ancestral home and I suppose afterward they wanted to identify with their African roots, so they switched to African-American. I don't know why they keep changing their racial identification name. Maybe it's a way to keep pride strong, or maybe it's a way of saying - you can take us out of Africa, but you can't take Africa out of us. That's just my opinion. I really have no idea.

People just assume Americans are white with light hair and eyes. Before the 60s this would have been true. Whites were like 90 % of the population back then but now are like 50-60% of the population. We're sort of seeing a different America now and things like African American, Hispanic American will no longer be necessary soon.

Wow, that really made sense. I would most probably fall for this exact same mistake too. It's a bit different here in our country though. All chinky-eyed human being is "Chinese" even if the person is 100% Korean!

I will have to say it is a new thing. I used to work in a large town with alot of black people for about 10 years. About 5 years into my working there Some society (i forgot the name) thought that calling a person black was racism because we did not call mexicans tan or chinese people yellow ( I know this because there was a big thing on the news about this) The name used to not be African-American it was Afro-american and there was criticizing about that also so then they changed the name to African-American. These are bigger people making those rules. My friend used to joke around about saying if she was not black she did not know what color she was.

Well sconibear... I think African-American just only term to make listener understood general description of the victim,it's not mean apartheid or something like that.

humm well let see how to explain it to you, now i am white because you had enough people of color that complain over silly things such as everyone else who always complain about things that why they had changed it. just like with people saying merry christmas or calling a christmas tree a christmas tree. because people in this mix of a place we call a world just assume that they know what everyone else wants to be called or what they want to be said. that is why. but i do agree with you how do they know that arent from another country instead of africa. you have a good point for sure hats off to you