African American?

African American?

Postby Rolluplostinspace » Tue Jul 27, 2021 5:20 pm

How many generations do they have to be in America for before they simply become American?
Most of them have never been to Africa.
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Re: African American?

Postby Rolluplostinspace » Tue Jul 27, 2021 5:27 pm

Elon Musk is African but he isn't referred to as African American :dunno:
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Re: African American?

Postby Stooo » Tue Jul 27, 2021 5:34 pm

Rolluplostinspace wrote:How many generations do they have to be in America for before they simply become American?
Most of them have never been to Africa.


It will take gradual change, it's part of what BLM is all about.
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Re: African American?

Postby Grafenwalder » Tue Jul 27, 2021 5:45 pm

This is a good read;

37 maps that explain how America is a nation of immigrants

American politicians, and Americans themselves, love to call themselves “a nation of immigrants”: a place where everyone’s family has, at some point, chosen to come to seek freedom or a better life.

But while the reality of America’s immigrant heritage is more complicated than the myth, it’s still a fundamental truth of the country’s history. It’s impossible to understand the country today without knowing who’s been kept out, who’s been let in, and how they’ve been treated once they arrive.

As much as American politicians pat themselves on the back for representing “the most welcoming country in the world,” there are smaller countries that have been more open to immigrants in recent decades.

https://www.vox.com/2015/1/12/7474897/i ... erica-maps
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Re: African American?

Postby Cactus Jack » Tue Jul 27, 2021 5:46 pm

rolledupinspace wrote:How many generations do they have to be in America for before they simply become American?
Most of them have never been to Africa


America is a country of immigrants and some like to hold onto their heritage.

African Americans, Asian American, Latino - or Latinx Americans, Hispanic Americans, Mexican Americans - some fo whose antecedants didn't budge an inch but still went from being Mexicans to being Americans - Irish Americans of course and White Supremacists I mean White Anglo-Saxon Protestant Americans are all co-thieves of land that belongs to the Native Americans who were massacred wholesale during the robbery.

There. Now you've got the 'woke' answer you were trolling for.
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Re: African American?

Postby Maddog » Tue Jul 27, 2021 5:50 pm

Cactus Jack wrote:
rolledupinspace wrote:How many generations do they have to be in America for before they simply become American?
Most of them have never been to Africa


America is a country of immigrants and some like to hold onto their heritage.

African Americans, Asian American, Latino - or Latinx Americans, Hispanic Americans, Mexican Americans - some fo whose antecedants didn't budge an inch but still went from being Mexicans to being Americans - Irish Americans of course and White Supremacists I mean White Anglo-Saxon Protestant Americans are all co-thieves of land that belongs to the Native Americans who were massacred wholesale during the robbery.

There. Now you've got the 'woke' answer you were trolling for.


Latinx.

Every Hispanic I know is offended by that term. It was invented by WASPs and a few Irish Americans.
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Re: African American?

Postby Maddog » Tue Jul 27, 2021 5:53 pm

Stooo wrote:
Rolluplostinspace wrote:How many generations do they have to be in America for before they simply become American?
Most of them have never been to Africa.


It will take gradual change, it's part of what BLM is all about.



Shouldn't it be AALM?

And BLM is about a handful of black folks.

It doesn't want to make things better.

It's there to exploit differences.
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Re: African American?

Postby Rolluplostinspace » Tue Jul 27, 2021 5:53 pm

Cactus Jack wrote:
rolledupinspace wrote:How many generations do they have to be in America for before they simply become American?
Most of them have never been to Africa


America is a country of immigrants and some like to hold onto their heritage.

African Americans, Asian American, Latino - or Latinx Americans, Hispanic Americans, Mexican Americans - some fo whose antecedants didn't budge an inch but still went from being Mexicans to being Americans - Irish Americans of course and White Supremacists I mean White Anglo-Saxon Protestant Americans are all co-thieves of land that belongs to the Native Americans who were massacred wholesale during the robbery.

There. Now you've got the 'woke' answer you were trolling for.

You are the biggest self obsessed dick head on here.
Why are you so desperate to prove something and what exactly is it you are so desperate to prove and why?
Every fucking topic you have to be there.
Every fucking topic you have to belittle someone to big yourself up.
You look seriously desperate yet again.
Are you like this out there in your real world because if so it must be a fucking lonely place.
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Re: African American?

Postby Maddog » Tue Jul 27, 2021 6:13 pm

Rolluplostinspace wrote:
Cactus Jack wrote:
rolledupinspace wrote:How many generations do they have to be in America for before they simply become American?
Most of them have never been to Africa


America is a country of immigrants and some like to hold onto their heritage.

African Americans, Asian American, Latino - or Latinx Americans, Hispanic Americans, Mexican Americans - some fo whose antecedants didn't budge an inch but still went from being Mexicans to being Americans - Irish Americans of course and White Supremacists I mean White Anglo-Saxon Protestant Americans are all co-thieves of land that belongs to the Native Americans who were massacred wholesale during the robbery.

There. Now you've got the 'woke' answer you were trolling for.

You are the biggest self obsessed dick head on here.
Why are you so desperate to prove something and what exactly is it you are so desperate to prove and why?
Every fucking topic you have to be there.
Every fucking topic you have to belittle someone to big yourself up.
You look seriously desperate yet again.
Are you like this out there in your real world because if so it must be a fucking lonely place.


When ever I walk into my local bar, there is one guy that I avoid at all costs.

I'll stand on my head in the corner and drink my pint before I sit next to him.

CJ is that one guy.
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Re: African American?

Postby Raggamuffin » Tue Jul 27, 2021 6:41 pm

Rolluplostinspace wrote:How many generations do they have to be in America for before they simply become American?
Most of them have never been to Africa.


Exactly. I think that some black Americans don't like being referred to as "African" on the grounds that they've never been to Africa. African isn't a race.
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Re: African American?

Postby Raggamuffin » Tue Jul 27, 2021 6:48 pm

Cactus Jack wrote:
rolledupinspace wrote:How many generations do they have to be in America for before they simply become American?
Most of them have never been to Africa


America is a country of immigrants and some like to hold onto their heritage.

African Americans, Asian American, Latino - or Latinx Americans, Hispanic Americans, Mexican Americans - some fo whose antecedants didn't budge an inch but still went from being Mexicans to being Americans - Irish Americans of course and White Supremacists I mean White Anglo-Saxon Protestant Americans are all co-thieves of land that belongs to the Native Americans who were massacred wholesale during the robbery.

There. Now you've got the 'woke' answer you were trolling for.


Stupid man. Think about the support the IRA have from all those "Irish Americans" before you point the finger at "Anglo Saxon" Americans. I bet most of them haven't even been to Ireland. Biden calls himself "Irish" and he's nothing of the sort.
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Re: African American?

Postby Cactus Jack » Tue Jul 27, 2021 7:29 pm

Rolluplostinspace wrote:
Cactus Jack wrote:
rolledupinspace wrote:How many generations do they have to be in America for before they simply become American?
Most of them have never been to Africa


America is a country of immigrants and some like to hold onto their heritage.

African Americans, Asian American, Latino - or Latinx Americans, Hispanic Americans, Mexican Americans - some fo whose antecedants didn't budge an inch but still went from being Mexicans to being Americans - Irish Americans of course and White Supremacists I mean White Anglo-Saxon Protestant Americans are all co-thieves of land that belongs to the Native Americans who were massacred wholesale during the robbery.

There. Now you've got the 'woke' answer you were trolling for.

You are the biggest self obsessed dick head on here.
Why are you so desperate to prove something and what exactly is it you are so desperate to prove and why?
Every fucking topic you have to be there.
Every fucking topic you have to belittle someone to big yourself up.
You look seriously desperate yet again.
Are you like this out there in your real world because if so it must be a fucking lonely place.

Sorry didn't my answer meet your fucked drugged fantasy?

No it's not that I'm sorry it's that..

I don't fucking care.
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Re: African American?

Postby Stooo » Tue Jul 27, 2021 8:06 pm

Can we calm it down please. :smilin:
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Re: African American?

Postby Red Okktober » Tue Jul 27, 2021 8:59 pm

Stooo wrote:It will take gradual change, it's part of what BLM is all about.


Yeah, alongside burning buildings to the ground and looting shops.
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Re: African American?

Postby Red Okktober » Tue Jul 27, 2021 9:00 pm

Raggamuffin wrote:Exactly. I think that some black Americans don't like being referred to as "African" on the grounds that they've never been to Africa. African isn't a race.


African American is one of the 5 racial types on the US census form
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