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Any African-american Women Crucified?

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My understanding is that people of African (black) ancestry in the USA often prefer "African American" to "black" so as not to reduce their identity to a skin colour. This is clearly not the correct identity for black Brits, Europeans, or Oceanians. I'm not sure anyone should take offense. I did not think Ed was trying to be exclusive, but rather was observing a point of consideration. At the same time, it's worth keeping in mind that not everyone here is from the USA, and we may have a number of persons of a non-white persuasion from other parts of the world.

Crux fantasy and ethnicity would make an interesting study.
Well....
It's a whole complicated thing.
When I was growing up in the South in the 60s, "colored" & "negro" were the most commonly used terms by both blacks & whites - along with a lot of less polite terms used by whites.
Martin Luther King Jr almost always used the term "negro". It was considered a more polite & formal term at the time. The term "black", which had been seen as negative (black hearted, black sheep, etc) caught on in the 60s as the civil rights movement became more vocal & defiant. The term likely seemed more aggressive - "black power" sounds more assertive than "negro power". For a brief time in the 70s, "Afro-American" was in vogue. "African American" began to be used, I believe, in the 80s.

Most "African Americans" have roots in the US that predate most Irish-Americans, Italian-Americans, Polish-Americans, etc. Also, most blacks in American have at least some white ancestry - and a lot of whites have some African ancestry.

In other countries, the term "black" can refer to people who are not African. In Australia, for instance, the Aborigines, who are of Asian origin, are referred to as "black people".

The whole issue of "race: & "color" is really the product of European Colonialism. To justify their conquest & differentiate themselves from the subject peoples, Europeans divided the world into "white", "black", "red', & "yellow". As noted elsewhere in this Forum, the Romans, along with other pre-modern people, saw things differently. "Race" referred to nationality or cultural ethnicity, not skin color.
 
I love her look of arrogant defiance, and her almost hairless black quim, the pink so nearly visible!

Is she staring back at a gang of big black boys, all stripped and hard for action, daring them to do their worst? Lucky bitch if she is!
 
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