Do you prefer/say African American or black?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am black. Neither my parents nor I have immigrated from Africa. If you call me colored things will get ugly.

well, people call me Irish-American (if anything), when describing ethnicity or background, and my family has been here for 200 years +.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am black. Neither my parents nor I have immigrated from Africa. If you call me colored things will get ugly.

well, people call me Irish-American (if anything), when describing ethnicity or background, and my family has been here for 200 years +.

No.

[Anonymous]

When I am talking to PC white people, I say AA. When talking to friends (white or other) I say black. I am black.

[Anonymous]

I say black when I'm talking to friends and AA when I am inna professional or formal context. Usually talking about demographic data in the professional context. If I am talking about actual people and their race I am generally close enough personally to say black. I am white and my workplace is made up of close to equal numbers of black and white colleagues.

[Anonymous]

I say black at home, AA out in public. African American is too many syllables. Maybe Afram?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am black. Neither my parents nor I have immigrated from Africa. If you call me colored things will get ugly.

Just as a side note, do you look down on Africa and Africans?
I mean is African ancestry something you are ashamed of?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am black. Neither my parents nor I have immigrated from Africa. If you call me colored things will get ugly.

Just as a side note, do you look down on Africa and Africans?
I mean is African ancestry something you are ashamed of?

[Anonymous]

black.

[Anonymous]

19:15 - LMAO!

[Anonymous]

Some hoity toity people I know use AA but also the N word. What's up with that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some hoity toity people I know use AA but also the N word. What's up with that?

And these are AA/black people.

[Anonymous]

I'm black....99% of the time, I say black. If I'm in an environment where I deem it appropriate (univ where I took AA courses), I use AA. I think there's much pride in the AA tag...it does not reference African immigrants, post-slavery. AA is a term used when talking about Blacks in America whose ancestors were brought over during slavery.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm black....99% of the time, I say black. If I'm in an environment where I deem it appropriate (univ where I took AA courses), I use AA. I think there's much pride in the AA tag...it does not reference African immigrants, post-slavery. AA is a term used when talking about Blacks in America whose ancestors were brought over during slavery.

What about African immigrants who were raised in the US from childhood? I think many of them may identify as AA.

[Anonymous]

brought over during slavery. Don't you mean bought by the white Americans

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I prefer "of color" or "colored". Nobody I've ever met is black or white.

It has got to be hard making your way through the world if you are that literal.

Are you saying you call people colored to their faces? What happens next?

Do you think it is derogatory? Why? Seriously, I think it sounds much better than "black".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colored

The history of the word "colored" in the U.S. overrides however it may sound to you. I think if you polled black Americans, 99.99% of them would rather be called black than colored.

Wonder why the NAACP hasn't changed it name to National African American Association if saying colored is so bad?