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Old Tue Aug 09, 2005, 01:24pm
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Originally posted by Mark Padgett
Notice I don't use "African-American" even though some would say it's PC. I feel that we shouldn't hyphenate "American" and we should always treat all citizens as just "Americans", since they are.
Mark, everyone that is Black is not an American. Pele is Black, but he would never be African-American. That also applies to many Latin players from other countries. Sammy Sosa is clearly Black, he is not an African-American.

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