The Term African American

[AKA_Monet]

LOVE--you sit here and stated the following:

Originally Posted by LΩVE

I know a guy who is actually African-American. As in he was BORN in AFRICA and is now an American citizen. He finds the phenomenon funny because as he points out...and he's right...people who have been here for generation upon generation are American, plain American. In fact, anyone born here is just American. Someone born a citizen of another country who emigrates to America is fdsfdsnjk-American.

First of all, you made an outright presumptuous (and contemptuous), sense of entitlement statement to EVERYONE on GC who CHOOSES to call themselves African-American. I DO NOT GIVE A FUCK WHAT YOUR FRIEND SAID--HE IS A LITTLE PRICK TO SAY THAT TO YOU! (If he truly said that BS). Then you are dumb enough to post some shit like that here... That is what all of us are gently trying to say to you and you are NOT interested in shutting the fuck up, reading a book to get the full story in your University library, and really determining why the idea of changing definitions of people is even occurring...

Let me outright judge you without me knowing you: The comments you just said to those of us who CHOOSE to call ourselves African-American, you are behaving like a white supremacist--because who the FUCK are you to tell us what we should be anyways???

Originally Posted by LΩVE

I can't see why "black" could be offensive...Almost no one is WHITE or BLACK but those are easy lables [sic] that everyone understand to mean someone is of European decent or African decent.

To me "African American" makes as much sense to me for kids of my generation who are in fact just American, as me saying "IrishScottishFrenchItlaianwhoknows American". I'm not. I'm American and I'm classified as "white". That's it.

Being CALLED Black is NOT the issue! Black is not a derogatory term--it is a non-descriptive term. Classifying those of us who have a highly active tyrosinase gene with accelerated granule secretory formations in epithelial cells and short stubby sebaceous cells causing high kinks--as ONLY American minimizes our ancestral, cultural and current experiences and importance of how our culture shapes OUR identity, value, moral and being. WHO THE HAYLE ARE YOU TO TELL US THIS???? And how we CHOOSE to pursue OUR happiness in this country???

Based on your comments and the definite finality of them, you are NOT interested discourse. So basically, we are all telling you LEAVE--I will be more than happy to use more colorful language if you don't get that!

Buh-bye!