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When I was in 11th grade, an Egyptian-American had a future scholarship rescinded because she was not African American.
by nanidin 4y ago
When I was in 11th grade, an Egyptian-American had a future scholarship rescinded because she was not African American.
- leereeves 4y agoThat sounds silly, until you realize that "African-American" is just code for black, from a time when saying "black" was considered mildly racist.
- tanseydavid 4y agoSeriously...What?!??!
- leereeves 4y ago> Most of us became familiar with the ethnonym African American in the 1980s, when Jesse Jackson began popularizing it as an alternative to black. https://yalealumnimagazine.org/articles/4216-the-origin-of-african-american https://yalealumnimagazine.org/articles/4216-the-origin-of-a... > African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans and Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from sub-Saharan Africa. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Americans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Americans
- bolt7469 4y agoInteresting example: Elon Musk is technically an "African American," except the word is actually used to mean Black American
- jjtheblunt 4y agosimilarly, I think Charlize Theron has joked about the same for her, how confused the terminology is.
- 93po 4y agoIt's still mildly uncomfortable depending on how it's used. As a white guy I usually say "they're a black person" or "a person who's black" when referring to a non-specific person. Adding "person" I feel is helpful in the same way it's better to reference "a Jewish person" versus "a Jew"
- kortilla 4y agoMildly uncomfortable for who?