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Originally posted by rainbowbrightCS
bump... I think you said it beautifully.
I have another question. Why do people call some one who is black African-american? Becuase not every one who is black is American and 2) not all black people are from africa, (originaly all people are from Africa, I am not going get into that)
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The movie Malcolm X explains this really well.
The word "black" has negative connotations (i.e. black moods, black magic etc) as opposed to the positive connotations of "white" (white as snow, white magic) so people did not want to be referred to as black. African-American expresses that they still felt part of Africa.
That is a REALLY stripped-down explanation, and if anything I said came out wrong, my apologies.