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**squeerisott** · 01-28-2012, 06:11 AM

I think he meant that Whites call themselves just White or American. While the rest of us have a hyphenated name (i.e. African American, Asian American, Latino-American, etc). At least that's what I got from his post.

We didn't give ourselves those hyphenated names. Well we actually did come up with "African American" thanks to Jesse Jackson. But we call ourselves that because prior to the 1980s we were called Negros, Afro-American, Colored, etc. It's not like we never wanted to be called just Americans. I personally see myself as just black.

01-28-2012, 06:11 AM	#27
squeerisott Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 423 Senior Member	I think he meant that Whites call themselves just White or American. While the rest of us have a hyphenated name (i.e. African American, Asian American, Latino-American, etc). At least that's what I got from his post. We didn't give ourselves those hyphenated names. Well we actually did come up with "African American" thanks to Jesse Jackson. But we call ourselves that because prior to the 1980s we were called Negros, Afro-American, Colored, etc. It's not like we never wanted to be called just Americans. I personally see myself as just black.
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