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How can African-Americans be African if most of them never set one foot in Africa?

Update:

@Brother X: But you are just Americans.

Update 2:

@Migzie Cutie: That makes perfect sense.

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  • 2 weeks ago
    Favourite answer

    Well we not Americans so whatchu wanna label us?

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    No Magui if we was American there'd be no problem.  Americans have full civil rights.  Americans are served and protected by the police force.  Americans get justice in the courtroom.  Crimes that Americans get 10 years for, my people get given 25.  Americans get paid for they labor and if not they can take it to court and the court will make sure they get paid, my people can't get money they owed for 310 years of unpaid labor and there's no court willing to hear the case.

  • Anonymous
    2 weeks ago

    Them people have no link to Africa. They don't eat as Africans do. Black American Christians eat Pork, African Christians do not. Most Black Americans for decades refused to acknowledge their people came from Africa. Black Americans are still our Slaves. They don't read, they hate each other, they make babies without getting married, they embrace Prison over University. 

  • Anonymous
    2 weeks ago

    Every type of American except White people seems to prefer a label telling of their ethnic background instead of just the label “American”.

  • Anonymous
    2 weeks ago

    It's a matter of pride.  Like Italian Americans.  German Americans. It really has no meaning.

  • 2 weeks ago

    They’re American born Africans, because of their ancestry, so they’re both American and African, that’s their race.  

  • 2 weeks ago

    Sure, I mean it isn't like white Americans ever refer to themselves as Italian or Irish, yet have never been to Italy or Ireland. Oh wait, they do. 

  • ?
    Lv 4
    2 weeks ago

    They're Americans of African descent. It refers to their genetic and ancestral background

  • ?
    Lv 5
    2 weeks ago

    It just refers to their ancestry. The only true African American is one who moves do the US from an African country.

  • 2 weeks ago

    Because their ancestors were forcibly taken from Africa, and it is where they are rooted genetically.

  • 2 weeks ago

    They say they are and,like Meghan, you can't call them a liar.

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