KBCraig
Regular Member
It's not terribly uncommon in the South, but I'm sure it's more of a shocker on a college campus.
From the 2010 Census: "'Black or African American' refers to a person having origins in any of the Black racial groups of Africa. It includes people who indicated their race(s) as 'Black, African Am., or Negro' or reported entries such as African American, Kenyan, Nigerian, or Haitian."
Afrikaaners can't officially be African-American.
The funniest PC brain twist I've ever seen was a few years ago, on a news report about a group of American students making a human aid trip to Africa. They could not grasp the concept of white Africans, and kept trying to distinguish the "African-American Africans" --in Africa!-- from the "white Africans".
That was my first thought as well; I suspect we know the answer.Now, if a white kid put one up and had the same reasoning, I wonder if the story would end the same way?
I made the acquaintance of a fellow in his late 20s, born in South Africa but now a naturalized American citizen, who tried the same thing. Turns out that the Census, U.S. Department of Education, and any other "official" government racial classification disagrees.I have a friend who was born in South Africa, and later emigrated here and became an American citizen. Now, he's one who can put "African American" on his documents and really be correct.
Screws with people's minds when they find out he's white.
From the 2010 Census: "'Black or African American' refers to a person having origins in any of the Black racial groups of Africa. It includes people who indicated their race(s) as 'Black, African Am., or Negro' or reported entries such as African American, Kenyan, Nigerian, or Haitian."
Afrikaaners can't officially be African-American.
The funniest PC brain twist I've ever seen was a few years ago, on a news report about a group of American students making a human aid trip to Africa. They could not grasp the concept of white Africans, and kept trying to distinguish the "African-American Africans" --in Africa!-- from the "white Africans".
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