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Old 04-24-2006, 04:50 AM
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Originally Posted by bohtieque
I've had a lot of whites act offended when I used the word "Black,"

My son's (white) pediatrician scolded me when I referred to my son as black. I just told her that my BLACK friends prefer the term BLACK. And my son is not African American, he's Ethiopian.

Also, I have heard that many American black people do not like it when (recent) African immigrants are referred to as AA because, to many American black people, AA is not just a desciption of skin color or ancestral heritage, it is also a delineator of shared slave heritage.

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