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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.

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!

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.

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.