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Originally Posted by Relic
As someone who is of a mixed background I just feel the need to say that this is the kind of thing that "irks" me. When people try to force any kind of a label on someone elses racial self identity. I've had to deal with these kinds of comments from blacks and whites my entire life and they always think they know better then the person they are talking to about how that individual can or should see themselves.
Oh and the whole self respect thing and the bowing down to whites bit, is an insult and certainly a slap in the face of someone like me who is mixed.
I not trying to be a jerk but these kind of statements come across to me as extremely insulting.
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You consider being called an African just because a lot of passive-aggressive white people are idiots to not be a racial self identity? Being black does not make you African, plain and simple. You should be taking offense to the term "African American", not a white person whose trying to defend your racial origins.