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> here was a hard push to just swap "black" for "African-American" no matter how little sense it made, because "black" was considered offensive. This was a har

> here was a hard push to just swap "black" for "African-American" no matter how little sense it made, because "black" was considered offensive. This was a hard push from white people toward other white people, about being offended on the behalf of black people. Black people have never liked the term African-American, and most don't use it. The reasons why white people on either side of the "debate" wouldn't notice this or would operate as if this weren't true are left as an exercise for the reader. ----- 1991: Poll Says Most Blacks Prefer 'Black' to 'African-American' https://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/29/us/poll-says-most-blacks-prefer-black-to-african-american.html https://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/29/us/poll-says-most-blacks-... 2021: New Poll Shows Black People Prefer to be Called Simply ‘Black’ Over ‘African American,’ Hispanics Aren’t Keen to Newly-Formed Label ‘LatinX’ https://atlantablackstar.com/2021/08/11/new-poll-shows-black-people-prefer-to-be-called-simply-black-over-african-american-hispanics-arent-keen-to-newly-formed-label-latinx/ https://atlantablackstar.com/2021/08/11/new-poll-shows-black... Here's a stupid article pretending that black people who still call themselves black in 2012 are space aliens or Amish, when there was never a point when black people didn't call themselves black: Some blacks insist: 'I'm not African-American' https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna46264191 https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna46264191

Izkata 2y ago
> This was a hard push from white people toward other white people, about being offended on the behalf of black people. Black people have never liked the term African-American, and most don't use it. Doesn't matter because that's not the point of my comment. The person I was responding to said: > and the distinction between "black" and "african american" was made because Americans with slave ancestry are not the only people who have dark skin color. My point is there was no distinction. At the time, in the US, those two terms referred to the same group of people. The push was to replace "black" with "African-American", not to use whichever term was more appropriate.

Izkata 2y ago

> This was a hard push from white people toward other white people, about being offended on the behalf of black people. Black people have never liked the term African-American, and most don't use it. Doesn't matter because that's not the point of my comment. The person I was responding to said: > and the distinction between "black" and "african american" was made because Americans with slave ancestry are not the only people who have dark skin color. My point is there was no distinction. At the time, in the US, those two terms referred to the same group of people. The push was to replace "black" with "African-American", not to use whichever term was more appropriate.