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Help[Opinions] I don't understand what you mean...
in reply to a message by Elle (Bellatrix)
As a young black woman, I don't find the term blacks to be rude at all. I find it to be very accurate. African-American and Afro-American are more rude to me because they single me out. I am an American, first and foremost. There is no African to it...I was not born in Africa, I have never been to Africa and I have little desire to go.
My family has been in America since it was founded, as have the families of many of my white peers. No one calls those same peers German-Swedish-French-Native-Americans, so why should I be called African-American, just because my skin is dark?
Anyway, I didn't say that stereotyping names is good or even ok. I just said that it happens, and it isn't a novel or foreign concept.
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
My family has been in America since it was founded, as have the families of many of my white peers. No one calls those same peers German-Swedish-French-Native-Americans, so why should I be called African-American, just because my skin is dark?
Anyway, I didn't say that stereotyping names is good or even ok. I just said that it happens, and it isn't a novel or foreign concept.
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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