This post is especially interesting to me...
It would seem so simple for African-Americans to just call themselves "Africans living in America" but then that would mean that slavery amounted to nothing more than a change in location. I think we all must understand that A-As ARE NOT Africans living in America. The culture is not the same, the language, the values, etc. Although some things have been retained through the years, much has been lost. And that unfortunate fact is what warrants the title "African-Americans" because although, we all come from Africa, being born and raised in the US, A-As have taken on characteristics that make them strikingly different from Africans.
(Just a thought)....Africa is a large, and very diverse continent, but no matter what, its just considered Africa. Why don't we refer to the specific countries themselves the way we refer to specific Asian and European countries?
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