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i.e., in terms of some ancestry or history: german-americans; irish-americans; polish-americans; etc.
some 4th and 5th generation european americans still identify themselves as solely "irish" or "german" or whatever (and many times, for reasons still unknown to me throw in some native american ancestry in there like "my grandmother was 1/8th cherokee" or some such bullshit) and often have never set foot in their ancestral homeland.
other races, nationalities have had this privilege.
african americans are the only group in this country who have had their history made invisible to them. the power structure has saw fit to place the labels on black americans since this nation's inception: from niggers to coloreds to negroes to blacks, african americans are the ones who have had their history, ancestry, and lineage erased from their culture. they have had their labels placed upon them.
so why would anyone have a problem with "blacks" wanting to identify themselves as african americans? why deny african americans this?
or is this yet one more time where whites still refuse to accord a basic privilege to an oppressed class that the white culture in this country takes for granted?
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