13407745, May I ask how you also feel about the Black American Descendents of
Posted by kfine, Sat Oct-10-20 08:03 PM
US Slavery/ Black ADOS/ Black American DOS title(s)?
Disclaimer: I'm pretty open about being lowercase black/daughter of immigrants (for lack of a better term, literally) and hesitated about responding... but I do use the term Black American and/or Black ADOS pretty frequently in my posts here (in part because one or more of these terms are what the Black Americans in my life strongly prefer to be called), and would hate for anyone to misconstrue or feel offended by my doing so. I do have my own views on all this (and, tbf, think the ADOS folks' quantitative argument on this issue is pretty airtight), but I'll only engage further if it's cool. I'm asking first and foremost to learn.
>I’ve always considered myself to be African
>American. There is no country called Black or White, or Negro
>for that matter.
>
>Tar is black. Graphite is black. By not recognizing the
>continent or land that I come from, is a disregard to my
>ancestors and bloodline.
>
>In the 80s, black activists met at operation Push, and they
>all decided that our population would no longer go by the
>phrase Black American. This is how the phrase or title African
>American came about.
>
>The term Black became popular in the late 60s and 70s, because
>our population no longer wanted to be called Colored or Negro
>Americans.
>
>Every other population is recognized by the name of the
>country or region they come from: Chinese American, Latin
>American or Mexican
>American, etc.
>
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