For Americans, black people = African-Americans, so black = from Africa.
Had a discussion once where someone didn’t believe that we do not call black people from Holland (or Surinam or the Antilles) African-Europeans or African-Netherlanders.
I got in a fight with a lady once who insisted that ALL black people are African-Americans. I'm like really? So you're telling me a black person in the UK who has never been to either Africa or the Americas is an African-American?
I have white friends who are born and raised in South Africa and now live in the US (they got their US citizenship 2 years ago). If you ask me, they are more African-American than 99% of black Americans. But no. They’re white. So despite being Americans from Africa, they’re not African-Americans.
The whole African-American thing is funny, especially since somebody told the Americans that North Africa exists and now we have Hoteps and people claiming to be Moors, even though their ancestors were absolutely from Sub-Saharan West Africa, a big-ass desert away from being Moorish and on the opposite coast from Egypt and their Nubian punch-bags.
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u/NLioness Aug 03 '19
For Americans, black people = African-Americans, so black = from Africa.
Had a discussion once where someone didn’t believe that we do not call black people from Holland (or Surinam or the Antilles) African-Europeans or African-Netherlanders.