DaDeathGuy 202 Posted July 19, 2023 3 minutes ago, Toast said: That's not saying that black people aren't American! "People who are neither African nor American", eg black people who are French, British, Dutch etc. My point was that "African-American" is starting to be wrongly used as a synonym for black non-Americans by people who don't think about what they're saying. They're still African in origin though. 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Toast 14,847 Posted July 20, 2023 19 hours ago, DaDeathGuy said: They're still African in origin though. I'll say it again. My point was that "African-American" is starting to be wrongly used as a synonym for black non-Americans by people who don't think about what they're saying. I should probably have made the comment in the English Language thread. It would have been better understood there. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
time 7,968 Posted July 20, 2023 20 hours ago, DaDeathGuy said: They're still African in origin though. If you want to get technical, so are us white folk. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DaDeathGuy 202 Posted July 20, 2023 21 minutes ago, time said: If you want to get technical, so are us white folk. Sounds conspiratorial. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tango854 207 Posted July 20, 2023 4 hours ago, time said: If you want to get technical, so are us white folk. No white people were created on the Greek island Patmo by an ancient black scientist known as Yakub. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lilham 650 Posted July 20, 2023 6 hours ago, Toast said: I'll say it again. My point was that "African-American" is starting to be wrongly used as a synonym for black non-Americans by people who don't think about what they're saying. I should probably have made the comment in the English Language thread. It would have been better understood there. It's not even just starting... I remember it happening at the Olympics 20 years ago. No non-American who just won a medal for their own country wants to be called an American. It happens frequently and then they issue retractions. It makes sense that it happens, because of how we're taught euphemisms. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Toast 14,847 Posted July 20, 2023 2 hours ago, Tango854 said: No white people were created on the Greek island Patmo by an ancient black scientist known as Yakub. Nobody said any were. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
arghton 6,124 Posted August 11, 2023 Anna-Liisa Anttila, Finland's first woman radio news presenter (1965), dead at 96. 2022 BBC interview. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,098 Posted March 2 Peggy Maxie, the first Black woman elected to the Washington state House, has died. She was 87. https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/peggy-maxie-first-black-woman-elected-to-wa-state-house-dies/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
