This is patently untrue and a form erasure.
There are black Americans. If you talk to them, and ask if they are African American they will tell you no, because they are not African. They are just Americans. Same as the are white Americans.
You don’t get to choose.
i know that in “America”, still to day, people who are “imported” from Africa during colonialism are called “black”. Racial theories of the past are banalized today.
This right here is racism. The “I know where black people came from.” Racism. The micro-agressions of erasing a swath of people’s existence. The inability to even say the word slavery, denying an entire sorrid period of American history. The fucking audacity to say that a black or African or African Americans lived existence is trivializing their past.
when i write “imported”, i of course am writing about slavery. My comment is not about denying all the suffering slaves and their children and their children’s children had to go through or are still going through. Imported means a “soulless” object (like animals too were considered to be back then), a slave.
My comment is about, like i wrote, racial color codification and banal use of it in phrases like "i’ve noticed that a lot of black people …
