Klarinet Archive - Posting 000271.txt from 1999/02

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] re:Black, or African American
Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 19:40:25 -0500

From: David Blumberg <reedman@-----.com>
>Ed, I'm not black, but the term "African American" IS the politically
>correct one from all that I have heard, and read. I much prefer black
>(myself), and think that the African American stuff is silly, but then
>again - I didn't make the "rules". (what if they are Caribbean
american,
>etc....).

If you referred to people whose skin color is black (or dark, or
whatever) and who are American citizens "African-Americans", you would
be often incorrect in my neighborhood. About a quarter of the people
living in my neighborhood are Americans who emigrated from the
subcontinent of India ...
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