Who coined the term "African American" ?
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shadb33
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I forgot his name...but I know it was during the 1980s
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shame on both of you: Jesse Jackson.
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Jesse Jackson
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every 30 years we get a new name...lol
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I knew it was Jesse Jackson I was just seeing who knew. And yea it seems like we get a new name every 30 years cause it's set that way. We have a "name''? We have a real nationality. We are Moors. Before 1492 we were called Moors or Blackamoor as in "black as a moor". We should be putting down Moorish on these Census forms, not black or ? or colored.
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konceptjones wrote: »shame on both of you: Jesse Jackson.
*hangs head in shame* yeah..him. Whats funny is we just had a discussion on him and this very topic last week. -
I call myself black based on my Caribbean background from my parents and not African American. I never knew where the phase actually came from.
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Why don't we come up with something other than black (we are diff shades) and african american (we are far removed from our african ancestors)?
Any suggestions?
in the islands we say creole
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Why don't we come up with something other than black (we are diff shades) and african american (we are far removed from our african ancestors)?
Any suggestions?
in the islands we say creole
"American"
sounds about right. -
This thread was made last week basically under another name..
Pays homage to our recognizes our present.. and recognizes the past -
konceptjones wrote: »"American"
sounds about right.
that's to much common sense......that's what everybody would say -
playmaker88 wrote: »This thread was made last week basically under another name..
Pays homage to our recognizes our present.. and recognizes the past
No it doesn't and it wasn't created for that reason. -
No it doesn't and it wasn't created for that reason.
Im tellin you what i feel about it.. i know the reasons behind it -
playmaker88 wrote: »Im tellin you what i feel about it.. i know the reasons behind it
Oh aight. But do you know the history of Moorish nationality? -
I don't think our descendants were Moors and mainly Islamic. Islam is a new religion. Our descendants can be traced back to Israel long before the birth of Islam.
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I don't think our descendants were Moors and mainly Islamic. Islam is a new religion. Our descendants can be traced back to Israel long before the birth of Islam.
Well this is the problem, everybody wants supremacy when the truth is that our ancestors came from all over Africa (including Israel), Europe and the Americas with a small minority from East Asia. we all of that. However, black/African American is the title we use NOW.
I really don't know what else to say because everybody's views are different. What I do know is that breaking off into little titles and groups would make us weaker as a political & economic force. -
I studied the Moorish History and it's FACTUAL.
Israelite history? Factual as well.
Native history? Same as above.
Sub Saharan history? This is WHAT MOST OF US ARE EVEN WITH ADMIXTURE.
European history? Troof as well b.
East Asian ancestry too cuz? Yep.
Keep in mind that Africa is still our power base and black is a blanket term as well as Creole, Latino, West Indian. -
i am willing to bet he didn't coin it, he just made it popularkonceptjones wrote: »shame on both of you: Jesse Jackson. -
What is this correlation with a 'color' to a geographical 'ethnicity'? I don't understand how it can bounce from one to the other (I feel it's used for convenience)? Can anyone expound on this?
