tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5068499539347729229.post7826303993380762319..comments2011-02-12T09:01:13.468-05:00Comments on Huffingtons-Lost Comments: Ameicanismshphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14343814914570113893noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5068499539347729229.post-59621806534087567732009-11-03T15:20:41.082-05:002009-11-03T15:20:41.082-05:00You make an interesting point. An interesting poi...You make an interesting point. An interesting point I disagree with at some level but none-the-less interesting. Btw. who would give you a dirty look for calling a black person black? Now, if you call me colored or a negro I'm going to think you are, perhaps, hopelessly antiquarian but not racist. I, for one, prefer the term black to African-American because I think that the latter term is somewhat disingenuous. My ancestors *stopped* being Africans the minute the West African coast disappeared over the horizon a couple of hundred years ago. Since then we have been Americans--whether America believed that about us or not. This much we agree on.<br /><br />Where I disagree with you is this idea that if you call yourself African-American or Hispanic American or Asian American you are not an American. There is no nation called Africa. No nation called Asia. No nation called Hispania or Hispanola (there's a city by the latter name but no matter here). They are ethnic markers NOT nationality markers. It is no more renouncing your American nationality to call yourself Asian American than it is to call yourself a Jewish American.<br /><br />Cheers<br />AAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com