Except I deal with this frequently and in my life I've never experienced it to be hyperbole. It's a pervasive notion that african-american and black are synony

Except I deal with this frequently and in my life I've never experienced it to be hyperbole. It's a pervasive notion that african-american and black are synonymous, and it's perpetrated by people of all races and cultures in america. I've been lectured about "my roots" dozens of times by those making comments like this. Out of the potentially hundreds of people that I've confronted that have made passing comments equating blacks and african american slave-related cultural history, zero were saying it without purpose.