23859, RE: African vs./or African American
Posted by mke, Thu Jun-08-00 09:24 PM
>Frankly, that would make you French.
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The only thing I share with the Frenchman is the passport.
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>It would also make you largely
>irrelevant to this discussion.
Martinique is in the Americas. I am of African descent, just like African-Americans. But then again, my personal life-experience has relatively little to do with people of any culture, so I don't necessarily mind being excluded from this discussion.
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