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Guess what? I wouldn't come here anymore if it had "black" in the title, because no one is "black." How about not even naming this forum based on an ethnicity, but rather just forums dedicated to certain degrees of curly hair.

yeah they are being pc... hee hee. they can't never win with us... we really shouldn't expect them to understand what we want to be called. we should have our own forums if we want to get specific about tightness of coil patterns and degrees of fuzziness. that is stuff you would get by experience so you can't expect straight/wavy/curly haired folks to understand and define coily/fuzzy/nappy haired folks hair. lol...

i have no probs with the labels african american or black or negro or colored people. this is america and that's part of the package in living here.

I agree, it's called the African-American forum because by and large, most of the people who come here are in fact American...but maybe they put the name out specifically to tick you off...lol!

I think the category is african american hair because it is an american company. The person who said that black does not adequately describe anyone was right. Black means the absence of light. White means the absence of dark, also not a term describing a human. I do not know anyone like that. The other types of "black" people you mentioned are Africans also, just emigrated or displaced.

ummm, no. Why would use the word "cracker" and expect to be answered proffessionally or even a response from the admins? How do you know the person who typed in "african american hair" wasn't black? You can ask a large amount of blacks on this forum no1 would really care about this, but you did. Which is alright cuz ur speakin yo mind and everyone has freedom of speech, but dayumm.


smh= shakin my head.

btw

btw= by the way
afk= away from keyboard

All im sayin is alot of people dont understand the black race african, carribean or american we are everywhere so i think its bull**** that were almost restricted to a name such as that. Its almost like everyday on this board where i see blacks say the stupidest **** about there own race like if ur african ur hair is thick or that all africans are dark skinned, all i wanna do is clear it up.

Now i kno were all of african diaspora but we arent all the same the only thing black from around the world share in common is the fact that they are black so it pisses me off when im referred to as an african american cause i dont know **** bout africa, C'mon really im a carribean black skinned man with ancestry from africa.

what i really mean is that black people are just like white people in the sense that there are diffrent types like white russians are diffrent from white italians and black americans are diffrent from black jamiacans

i kno this post doesnt make alot of sense but i was in a hurry when i wrote it

Brazil has the highest populations of blacks after Africa, so it is not rare to find black peope in Brazil.

But I undestand you point. I for one, do not like the term African American and do not refer to myself as such. I mean what part of Africa is it that I'm from? You don't see whites calling themselves European Americas but rather they'll say they're, Irish, Italian, German, Polish, etc.

But since the majority of Blacks in the US and surrounding countries are descendents of slaves who were kidnapped from their homeland 400 years ago and stripped of their history, identity, religion, and language. Somebody, somewhere said:

"Here, let's throw these black folks a bone and call them African-American, we don't know from where in Africa they're from perse so we'll just reference the enitire continent as if it's one monolithic entity void of any unique cultures, customs or differences.. that'll make them happy"

And that they did.

I don't get offended personally. I prefer to call myself black but, whatever. Different strokes for different folks, I guess.

I guess it's still open because stupid people like me keep responding to it.

Nymphe wrote: Afropuffs wrote: But since the majority of Blacks in the US and surrounding countries are descendents of slaves who were kidnapped from their homeland 400 years ago and stripped of their history, identity, religion, and language. Somebody, somewhere said: "Here, let's throw these black folks a bone and call them African-American, we don't know from where in Africa they're from perse so we'll just reference the enitire continent as if it's one monolithic entity void of any unique cultures, customs or differences.. that'll make them happy" And that they did. It sounds like you should do more research into slavery, among other things. Also, the term was created and first used by Jesse Jackson, so go complain to him. Why is this stupid thread still open?

It sounds like you need to get that chip off your shoulder and ask yourself why you think a thread about blacks discussing their origins is stupid?

Blacks in the US rarely know where from in Africa their people hail. Why group everybody into one group like Africa doesn't have a gazillion different languages, cultures, customs and traditions.


White people from europe can be german, polish, french, italian, norwegian, etc. But when I suggest that blacks shouldn't be forced to be grouped together like we are all the same you suggest I research slavery? Which part should I research that will tell me from which country I should identify with?

In my opinion, telling blacks they should call themselves AA is like telling whites they should call themselve European Americans. If they ever tried to change the white race to European American like they've done the black race, whites would be up in arms saying, but I'm polish, I'm german, etc... Blacks in the US can't say nothing because we don't know. Are we Siberian, Ghanian, Kenyan, Egyptian, Ethopian, Sudanese? So why should we act like all these countries are the same? That's disrespectful to the continent of AFrica if you ask me

But If this thread is so stupid then you should stay on up out of it. I don't comment in stupid threads personally, I have better things to do.