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Originally Posted by ArchLich
I chose not to read this entire thread cause it's just way too fucking long and redundant. I just wanted to comment on that particular part of your post. I get irked when black people call themselves "African American", because #1 white people came up with that condescending "nicety" and called it "politically correct" when the term itself embodies ignorance, and #2 when black people accept the term and actually USE it themselves... it's almost as if they're bowing down to whites. To be "black" is not to be "African" dude. Do you have any idea how many countries there are whose native people are originally black? Did you know that the majority of Africa is white? I can understand a white person being ignorant enough to say "all black people are originally from Africa" a little bit more than a black person saying that. Don't you have any self respect? Anyway, I just wanted to get that out there.
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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.