[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by belsarius

I got schooled once by an American black man on this. Basically it went along the lines of, I don't refer to myself as a European American (Canadian) because 5 generations ago I had someone born in England, so why should I be calling him an African American. He's never been to Africa, has no ties to Africa. "I'm American, I'm black, I'm not African."

And yet tonnes of white folks like to lay claim to being "Scottish" or "Irish" or "Italian" having never step foot in those countries.