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Since, using the same criterion of birth, I'm also African-American (albeit with a strong side of Caucasian), that means I should be celebrating, too! I'm on it like white on rice . . . oh, was it indelicate of me to say that?
Peter
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I hate to tell you this but by birth he is Afro-Canadian. His mother is native born Saskatchewan
But that's not what African American means.
He was born in and was a citizen of the RSA before coming here legally and becoming an American Citizen.
Peter, you, Elon, and Charlise Theron are currently my three favorite African Americans.
So when do North African-Americans get their month?
I'm a frickan American too. At least I was called that in England at RAF Spadeadam!
As I have ancestors from the Republic of Texas I have used Texan-American on a lot of forms. Much entertainment usually follows but by the rules for African-American I do qualify.
My brother had two friends in school proving the lie of the euphemism. One was a recent Caucasian immigrant from South Africa who didn’t understand at first why he was not considered African-American. The other was a black guy from I forget which Caribbean island whose entire family would get offended at being called African-American because they considered themselves as from that island, not from Africa. So it’s been clear since I was a kid in school 30 years ago that it was just an improper way of saying “black” without saying it.
Back in the 90's I worked with a South African that had migrated his family to the USA. His wife was American but both of his kids were born in SA. When black history month rolled around his high school son entered the Mr African-American contest. He had blond hair and blue eyes. It caused such an uproar the school cancelled the contest and most other activities that year and every year until he graduated.
I know several South African immigrants to the USA. My Dad sponsored two engineers to emigrate to the USA back in the 1970s and 1980s.
Go back far enough, and we're all African.
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