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Seriously...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 ago
  Interesting example: Elon Musk is technically an "African American," except the word is actually used to mean Black American
  • jjtheblunt 4y ago
    similarly, I think Charlize Theron has joked about the same for her, how confused the terminology is.