Anonymous
Post 03/08/2012 17:10     Subject: I'm an African American. Ask me anything.
AA here - if you're gonna say black, don't whisper it or lower your voice as if it were something bad. i had someone actually do that to me. "my students are mostly.. you know... black."

and don't say THE BLACKS. i hate that shit.

Anonymous
Post 03/08/2012 17:08     Subject: I'm an African American. Ask me anything.
I have a question. I am a black female and since OP is male I have always wanted to know ...

Do you think that dating/marrying a while woman as an accomplishment?
Anonymous
Post 03/08/2012 17:05     Subject: I'm an African American. Ask me anything.
Anonymous wrote:16:53/16:54, please keep that debate in that thread. This thread has been a very positive discussion.



Done, I will not bring it up again.
Anonymous
Post 03/08/2012 17:02     Subject: I'm an African American. Ask me anything.
16:53/16:54, please keep that debate in that thread. This thread has been a very positive discussion.
Anonymous
Post 03/08/2012 16:57     Subject: I'm an African American. Ask me anything.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Who here prefers AA? Who here prefers Black?

Signed,
AA

I call myself black. That is what i grew up with, and AA feels a bit pretentious and academic to me. But I don't care if others call me AA. It may be a generational thing too. I am over 40.


Either is OK, lately I've found myself using AA to self-identify, maybe because I've heard it so much over the past 10 years? I'm 38 & female.
Anonymous
Post 03/08/2012 16:54     Subject: I'm an African American. Ask me anything.
Anonymous wrote:Who here prefers AA? Who here prefers Black?

Signed,
AA

I call myself black. That is what i grew up with, and AA feels a bit pretentious and academic to me. But I don't care if others call me AA. It may be a generational thing too. I am over 40.
Anonymous
Post 03/08/2012 16:54     Subject: I'm an African American. Ask me anything.
I prefer Black, but then again according to the "African" thread I do not qualify for AA anyway bc my ancestors were dragged in chains to the Caribbean not to the USA.
Anonymous
Post 03/08/2012 16:53     Subject: I'm an African American. Ask me anything.
Anonymous wrote:Who here prefers AA? Who here prefers Black?

Signed,
AA


I don't have a preference, but have been surprised by the debate going on in the thread on Africans ... according to some posters over there, I have to get a new racial identity because none of my slave ancestors were ever in the US - signed formerly AA (specifically bi-racial with a Caribbean American black parent)
Anonymous
Post 03/08/2012 16:51     Subject: I'm an African American. Ask me anything.
Anonymous wrote:Who here prefers AA? Who here prefers Black?

Signed,
AA


I'm good with both. And I use them both depending on my audience.

-AA female
Anonymous
Post 03/08/2012 16:50     Subject: I'm an African American. Ask me anything.
Who here prefers AA? Who here prefers Black?

Signed,
AA
Anonymous
Post 03/08/2012 16:33     Subject: I'm an African American. Ask me anything.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Damn, AA OP!

27 pages later

Signed,
Shocked White Poster


I LOVE this thread! I'm impressed by the OP and others who are answering all questions with aplomb. OP, you have more patience than Job.


I agree! This thread is going much better than the "Questions for white people" one.
Anonymous
Post 03/08/2012 16:30     Subject: Re:I'm an African American. Ask me anything.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:

I agree 100% (also agree with your post preceding this one). Not sure why so many think we need "leaders". It's a bit insulting when you think about it.


I don't like Sharpton or Jackson, but I don't see a problem with a community having leaders. All communities do (and I'm talking about in all aspects of society, not just ethnicity-wise), I don't find it insulting. It's insulting when people ignorantly believe that prominent people of a group represent the thoughts of all people in that group, but there's nothing insulting about having "leaders," IMO.


I've never once heard anyone reference "leader" other than when it pertains to the black race. That tells me something.
Anonymous
Post 03/08/2012 16:29     Subject: I'm an African American. Ask me anything.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
I agree. As an honor roll student, I was not teased. I also was and also continue to be down to earth and gregarious.


The only was I could have fit in would have been to get knocked up, speak broken English, and gleefully talk about the Ds and Fs on my report card.

If that's being "down to earth," then no, I wasn't.

Things are different in different areas.


If this is how you felt about them, your disdain probably showed. I can see why you were picked up. Just sayin'

-AA female
Anonymous
Post 03/08/2012 16:27     Subject: I'm an African American. Ask me anything.
Anonymous wrote:Damn, AA OP!

27 pages later

Signed,
Shocked White Poster


I LOVE this thread! I'm impressed by the OP and others who are answering all questions with aplomb. OP, you have more patience than Job.
ManHere
Post 03/08/2012 16:26     Subject: I'm an African American. Ask me anything.
Anonymous wrote:Damn, AA OP!

27 pages later

Signed,
Shocked White Poster

Sorry