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All-In [47750]
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When did Blacks drop the term "African American"?
Jun 30, 2020, 9:39 AM
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Was it when they no longer wanted to be a part of America?
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I assume that black americans absolutely hate Africans
Jun 30, 2020, 9:42 AM
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considering that Africans sold out their own people to America.
But I really have no idea.
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Oculus Spirit [97716]
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It's pretty simple really.
Jun 30, 2020, 10:05 AM
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African-American Lives Matter versus Black Lives Matter
AALM versus BLM
So that's 10 syllables and 29 characters versus 4 syllables and 18 characters. 25% shorter acronym too.
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All-In [26968]
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I guess "they" had a meeting and voted on it?
Jun 30, 2020, 9:44 AM
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All of "them"?
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Oculus Spirit [83625]
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You crack me up....
Jun 30, 2020, 9:48 AM
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and I like you because I know you’re a good man of faith.
But one thread you take the obtuse role and then you get all clever like here.
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All-In [26968]
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Maybe I'm always clever
Jun 30, 2020, 9:51 AM
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But also willing to admit when I don't know something? 
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Oculus Spirit [83625]
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Oh no, I know...
Jun 30, 2020, 9:52 AM
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You’re never stupid
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All-In [26968]
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Well, I wouldn't go that far.
Jun 30, 2020, 9:53 AM
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Ask my wife.
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What a garbage post.***
Jun 30, 2020, 9:58 AM
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All-In [47750]
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Thank you very little.
Jun 30, 2020, 10:01 AM
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I raise the question because the Black population made such a big deal of the term "African Americans" but now it's not AALM, but BLM.
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real answer....I don't know
Jun 30, 2020, 10:02 AM
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I used the terms interchangeably. it should be Black instead of black though. especially if you're going to use it as a noun. just saying
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All-In [47750]
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Fair enough. Corrected.***
Jun 30, 2020, 10:04 AM
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I've had convos with friends of mine and one said that he
Jun 30, 2020, 10:29 AM
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doesn't use the term African American. He says "I've never been to Africa and I'm never going there. I'm a Black American and thats how it is.
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All-TigerNet [11963]
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honestly, I am not touch enough to know why or how
Jun 30, 2020, 10:35 AM
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I should prefer one over the other. one could 'argue' that "I'm not black, I'm brown, so why would I want to be referred to as a black person?"
Plus, not all Black people are from Africa, so there is some distinction there as well.
idk. #notsodeepthoughtsby3timetiger
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That's my big issue with the term African American
Jun 30, 2020, 11:57 AM
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Like you said, not all Black folks are from Africa. And not all Black folks are American.
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My step mom is an African American
Jun 30, 2020, 12:15 PM
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Born and raised in Kenya. Her parents left Eastern Europe to avoid getting killed by Hitler. She moved to the States about 40 years ago and got dual citizenship about 30 years ago.
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Re: When did Blacks drop the term "African American"?
Jun 30, 2020, 10:31 AM
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When white people get upset over what black people want to call themselves.
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It goes by who their president is
Jun 30, 2020, 10:45 AM
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Trump says Blacks, so that's what they go with because they respect their leader. Obama and others used AA, so that's what they used.
hth.
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Re: It goes by who their president is
Jun 30, 2020, 10:48 AM
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Well, they made the difference
Jun 30, 2020, 12:35 PM
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If black people would have voted for Hillary with the same numbers or percentages as the previous election, she would have won. But, you are right, he is the president of all of us.
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Re: When did Blacks drop the term "African American"?
Jun 30, 2020, 11:04 AM
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Americans from Africa do not want to be associated with the blacks of the USA.
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Re: When did Blacks drop the term "African American"?
Jun 30, 2020, 11:07 AM
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There are 2 or 3 posters here who are poisoning the
Jun 30, 2020, 11:58 AM
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conservative well.
Can you guess who they are?
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Oculus Spirit [83625]
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it's not so much that I'm surprised it's out there...
Jun 30, 2020, 12:08 PM
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just that it has to be posted and that they can't see it
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the one i talk most with i call Byron***
Jun 30, 2020, 11:53 AM
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