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RE: A Matter of Color... Skin Color - One Stop Thread - 7/21/2008 4:04:34 PM
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tracydolls
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The DNA says we are ALL AFrican-----whatever.
I'm an AFrican American, I do not consider those people like Obama AFRICAN American, they should make up another name for them.
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RE: A Matter of Color... Skin Color - One Stop Thread - 7/21/2008 4:39:10 PM
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KatMack
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The DNA says we are ALL AFrican-----whatever.
I'm an AFrican American, I do not consider those people like Obama AFRICAN American, they should make up another name for them.
What is your definition of African American, tracydolls?
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RE: A Matter of Color... Skin Color - One Stop Thread - 7/21/2008 5:16:20 PM
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stellaluna
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If you're born in this country, you are American. Period. If you're born in another country, you can call yourself by whatever country that is: Chinese, Austrian, Mexican, Canadian, Kenyan, etc.
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RE: A Matter of Color... Skin Color - One Stop Thread - 7/21/2008 9:52:09 PM
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scottiezsister
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ORIGINAL: tracydolls
The DNA says we are ALL AFrican-----whatever.
I'm an AFrican American, I do not consider those people like Obama AFRICAN American, they should make up another name for them.
What is your definition of African American, tracydolls?
--Kat
My thoughts exactly! His father was African and his mother was American from Kansas. He's biracial, but looking at him and not knowing his background, most people would see him as african american.
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RE: A Matter of Color... Skin Color - One Stop Thread - 7/22/2008 12:05:49 AM
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Kath
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My thoughts exactly! His father was African and his mother was American from Kansas. He's biracial, but looking at him and not knowing his background, most people would see him as african american.
well, based on that, it seems like he would be a true African American.
what would you call him?
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RE: A Matter of Color... Skin Color - One Stop Thread - 7/22/2008 2:51:42 PM
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Kath
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Wouldn't that just make them American? I mean, my background is English but I do not identify myself an English-American. My husband's grandparents come from Norway but he doesn't say he is a Norwegian/American.
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I'm an AFrican American, I do not consider those people like Obama AFRICAN American, they should make up another name for them.
Why? What would you call him? Based on being black and raised in America apparently that would make him African-American and the fact that his dad is from Africa truly makes him African-American. I don't get it.
What makes you African-American, any more or less so, than Obama?
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RE: A Matter of Color... Skin Color - One Stop Thread - 7/22/2008 2:58:00 PM
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Why do we even need to have titles for races? What's the point?
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RE: A Matter of Color... Skin Color - One Stop Thread - 7/22/2008 5:21:03 PM
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stellaluna
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Seems to me like Obama actually would be African-American, since is father was indeed African.
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RE: A Matter of Color... Skin Color - One Stop Thread - 7/22/2008 8:38:00 PM
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SonInMe1
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What makes you African-American, any more or less so, than Obama?
My guess is....he is not totally "black". So since his blood has been tainted with the evil white man blood, he cannot be considered the Pure Race.
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RE: A Matter of Color... Skin Color - One Stop Thread - 7/23/2008 10:14:29 AM
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lexie
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If you're born in this country, you are American. Period. If you're born in another country, you can call yourself by whatever country that is: Chinese, Austrian, Mexican, Canadian, Kenyan, etc.
My husband spent his childhood in Jamaica and his adulthood in Canada. He does like to consider himself Jamaican-Canadian because of his attachment to both countries.
It seems this whole "African-whatever country your in" thing is really an American thing. In Jamaica, my husband wouldn't be African-Jamaican. African-Canadian isn't even a big thing here.
A friend of mine was born in Ghana and grew up here. She has married a Ghanian man. She says that in Africa, she is not considered African anymore. They apply the term they use for white people to her (not in a bad way) because she has been removed from African culture. It doesn't deny her African heritage, but it recognizes that she is a part of another culture.
She says that many people there don't like others using the term African American if they are not a part of the culture or upbringing. It's one thing to identify with each other as coming from a common place, but for them the term African identifies culture in Africa that blacks in America aren't a part of. They can't understand why they want to hold on to a culture they know nothing about and not adopt the culture they are now a part of, which has been done in most other countries with a history of slavery.
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RE: A Matter of Color... Skin Color - One Stop Thread - 7/24/2008 4:02:32 PM
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Why do we even need to have titles for races? What's the point?
Vanity... I have seen folks more happy to have tiltle at work than a raise...
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RE: A Matter of Color... Skin Color - One Stop Thread - 7/24/2008 5:33:07 PM
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McFatty
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Why do we even need to have titles for races? What's the point?
Vanity... I have seen folks more happy to have tiltle at work than a raise...
John
I think you're right, John.
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RE: A Matter of Color... Skin Color - One Stop Thread - 7/25/2008 4:27:12 AM
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What makes you African-American, any more or less so, than Obama?
My guess is....he is not totally "black". So since his blood has been tainted with the evil white man blood, he cannot be considered the Pure Race.
Oh my gosh...most African Americans/blacks have some type of other "blood" mixed with them. I consider myself African American, but my ethnicity is not pure. To be honest, I'm not sure what I'm mixed with, but I KNOW that I'm not 100% African. I pretty sure I am mixed with Native American and probably something else, but I don't know what or who that person was. In fact, most African Americans don't know what they are mixed with.
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RE: A Matter of Color... Skin Color - One Stop Thread - 7/25/2008 4:34:43 AM
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scottiezsister
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Wouldn't that just make them American?
One would logically assume that, but PC does not recognize logic. 
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Now African American means a black person born and raised in America.
Wes,
Just to piggy back from my last post. Most African Americans/Black do not know their ethnicity. I am an American, but to specify more, people (myself included) add the term African to it since we know that the predominate race that we are mixed with is African. That's the easy definition. I also think it takes away from the negative connotation of "black," since many "black people's" skin color isn't black. It's usually a spectrum of browns. This is just the simple answer because there are other people from African decent who don't want to be referred as African American. It gets tiring sometimes!
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RE: A Matter of Color... Skin Color - One Stop Thread - 7/25/2008 9:31:12 AM
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rcjames
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What makes you African-American, any more or less so, than Obama?
My guess is....he is not totally "black". So since his blood has been tainted with the evil white man blood, he cannot be considered the Pure Race.
Actually the correct terminology to describe Obama would be Mulatto.
Thanks
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