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Originally Posted by Eastshire
I had a friend that immigrated from Jamaica. He really didn't like being called African-American.
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Because he is not. I grew up with a Nigerian family and they were not African-Americans in the truest form of the term. I also know Black people from Trinidad and Jamaica and other island countries.
I was in South Africa this summer and I met a lot of Africans that were not Black. And many of them looked just like people in this country but had origins from other countries, but grew up and lived in South Africa all their life. And I guess I also get a little tired of "We were born in America" talk. No crap, but that does not take away from our heritage or where our ancestry comes from and people wanting to claim that.
Peace