PBS asks: Are you "Black" or "African American"

[OfTheCross]

 

[old boy]

i'm proud to be of african descent but i prefer black, just sounds better to me

 

[you're NOT "n!ggas"]

 

[you're NOT "n!ggas"]

I'm glad they identified just how many terms we've been identified as, or associated with... That's a point I feel gets washed out in the ADOS discussion.



I WILL say though... Idk who or what "Azie" is but I know for a fact that Evelyn From The Internets is a Continental African. Of Kenyan descent. Luo (like Obama) if I remember right. Just a heads up for the ADOS gang.

 

[The Fade]

Crenshaw Mafian

 

[GodinDaFlesh]

African-American means a black person living in America.

 

[Ya?]

African-American means a black person living in America.

No it’s an ethnic group. A black person coming from guinea would be Guinean American.

 

[T'krm]

I...am...ADOS!

 

[GodinDaFlesh]

No it’s an ethnic group. A black person coming from guinea would be Guinean American.

No they would be African-American of Guinean descent.

 

[Michael's Black Son]

fukk PBS

 

[Sankofa Alwayz]

I’m both.

Black is my “race” and African American is my ethnicity.

 

[Sankofa Alwayz]

No they would be African-American of Guinean descent.

No, they would be Guinean American period. No ifs, ands, or buts.

 

[knickscity]

There is a reason why you don't have to reveal this info on any type of application.

 

[KillerB88]

I consider myself a Black American. My family has been here for hundreds of years, fought in wars, and even owns a large parcel of the land where my ancestors were once enslaved. African-American makes us sound like immigrants, as if we don’t have equal claim to this country. No one calls white people who got here after us German-Americans or any shyt like that. I’m not offended when I’m called AfAm, but I always refer to myself as a Black American in discussions regarding race.

 

[TEH]

nikka the red is for the blood in my arm
The black is for the gun in my palm
And the green is for the tram that grows natural
Like locks on Africans
Holdin the smoke from the herb in my abdomen
Camouflage fatigues, and daishikis
Somewhere in between N.W.A. and P.E.
I'm black like Steve Biko
Raised in the ghetto by the people
fukk the police you know how we do
Ayo my life is like Roots it's a true story
It's too gory for them televised fables on cable
I'ma a runaway slave watching the north star
Shackles on my forearm , runnin with the gun on my palm
I'm an African , never was an African-American
Blacker than black I take it back to my origin
Same skin hated by the klansmen
Big nose and lips, big hips and butts, dancin, what

- Dead Prez