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> > Heh. That reminds me of two of my classmates. One is black and an exchange student from Kenya. The other is white, lived most of his life in South Africa, but now has permanent residence in the US. The first one is annoyed when people call him African-American (since he's not American), and the second one annoys other people by calling himself African-American. Yay for ambiguous labeling.

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> At the risk of offending someone, I have to tell a distantly related story. At a different online forum, someone stated that because of the evolution theory that our ancestors came from Africa, "we were all African-Americans". I pointed out that it was an *international* forum, and they got the "African" part right but the "American" part wrong. One other person accused me of being overly nationalistic.

This is why I think the term "African-American" is absurd. I don't see what's wrong or offensive with simply calling people "black". After all, I doubt many white people get offended by the term "white" - I certainly don't.