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Re: Whiteness?

From:Adrian Morgan <morg0072@...>
Date:Monday, September 4, 2000, 7:42
Mike Adams wrote:

> Hum, if it is wrong to be american-european/european-american, then > why is it not wrong to be african-american? > > Me, I am an American, just happen to have most of my ancestors that > I know of, came from Europe.
I first learned the term african-american some years ago from one of the Dictionary Supplements in the annual Year Books published by World Book Encyclopedia -- this gives a list of words that have recently entered the English language in the opinion of the editors. I thought it was a beautifully poetic term. Rhythmic and dignified. I had no *idea* that it had political connotations (we're wonderfully insulated here in Aus). Years later I was shocked to learn - from a magazine interview with a well-known American negro - that the term had its origins in extreme political correctness and that many actual black Americans find it distateful. -- web. | Here and there I like to preserve a few islands of sanity netyp.com/ | within the vast sea of absurdity which is my mind. member/ | After all, you can't survive as an eight foot tall dragon | flesh eating dragon if you've got no concept of reality.