These are 2 completely different things.
Are you black or a nikka?
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Is it me or does High Learning have dumber posters than The Locker Room?
Too narrow minded Sticks to the same talking point or logic even after it’s proven wrong Not open to opposing views Act more emotional when people post shyt they don’t agree with. They basically represent the current state of the corporate Democratic Party. I make a thread illustrating a...
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"I'm an African ...fukk all da other terms!"
EDIT: 2017
My personal usage/perspective.
African = branch(root) of humanity, human lineage, "race"
Black = phenotype(tropically adapted ...limb ratio, hair, skin, etc)
African American = Africans who are citizens of the U.S.
Ethnicity = Group of humans who share common means, ways, history, etc irrespective of "race"
(a person can also be of multiple ethnic groups simultaneously)
There is no "official term" for the ethnic group of Africans who have been in the U.S. prior to it's founding via the trans atlantic. Now there are "official terms" for subgroups like creole, gullah geechee, etc. but not for the entire group.
To be clear this isn't some wild conspiratorial issue against us. It's a rather bland and by the numbers issue. There is no "official term" for the ethnic group because there was never any real need for one(other African peoples were always absorbed into the larger cultural group). Simple as that.
SIDE NOTE: this is actually a problem that people who work with dna have when you read certain papers. Because "African American" is a grab all citizenship term dna samples that use it are not sure who they are dealing with.(This problem is detailed below by Dr. Shomarka Keita in the comments/notes attached to the following academic paper)
....................................................A Note on Terminology for African Descendant Populations in North and South America
Posted by soykeita on 18 Mar 2012 at 12:27 GMT
Y Chromosome Lineages in Men of West African Descent
The phrase Legacy Afro-North American describes populations and individuals who are known or understood to be descendant of Africans who were brought to the United States via the Middle Passage, i.e. who are a legacy of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. "Legacy African American" could also be used. These phrases exclude Africans, no matter their geographical origin in Africa, who came by other means. This term would have parallels for South America and the Carribbean where there are also legacy populations (Legacy Afro-South Americans or Legacy Afro-Latinos for example).
The legacy status is deemed to have significance because of various known microevolutionary factors and likely epigenetic effects on these populations, which are socially defined differently in each country. (Remote African ancestry is not a factor in social definitions in all of the societies.)
The members of the legacy populations should not be homogenized with recent immigrants, something very important in health studies, irrespective of the definitions of census or bureacratic "race" notions. Another accurate designation for these groups/populations in the new world would include Middle Passage (or middle passage) Americans, with or without other descriptors (eg Middle Passage North Americans or Middle Passage Americans), because "Middle Passage" is restricted to those who came in this manner from tropical Africa. Other African peoples from Algeria to Zimbabwe have come to the US since the end of the great tragedy of the slave trade. They should be designated by their nationality regardless of phenotype and its assumed indicator or origin in the received racial schema and its erroneous basis (e.g.s. Algerian American). Nomenclature should accurately reflect a population or individual if the goal is to embed useful information in the terminology.
My suggestion
African = branch of human lineage / Race (also "African" on U.S Census)
African American = Ethnicity (Specific "Racial" ethnic group ...similar to "americo liberian" or "maroon")
Black = Phenotype (How you look)
(Time stamped for convenience)
"Black tells you what you look like, it doesn't tell you who you are"
- John henrik clarke
"When all is said and done, dogs and slaves are named by their masters; free men name themselves."
- Mr. Richard B. Moore
The Name "Negro," It's Origin and Evil Use
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New Black.
Justin Nitsuj
Superstar
I'm black but still got some nikka ways that I haven't shaken off me yet 
Im MJ.
Are you born & raised from Africa?
"I'm an African ...fukk all da other terms!"
Boogie
Been a joint call me Mr. Backwood
These are 2 completely different things.
You’re a squirrel why you saying nikka?
You’re a squirrel why you saying nikka?
richaveli83
Veteran
Black
Son Goku
Great Sage Equalling Heaven
You’re a squirrel why you saying nikka?
And not just a regular tree rat but one of the fruity mango ones running 'round with a cape.
