european descendents still try to live by thier roots in america, so in that aspect for them to call them selves "italian american' isnt much of a stretch... just specifies that they are trying to keep those roots active...
but this 'seperation' from everyone else is what promotes racism because it is a seperate group which can be pointed out and then racist to... even though its human nature to try to seperate into groups of similar people when its based on a color of skin, that promotes racism...Very few of us know of true African culture, unlike Italians, Hispanics, Poles, etc., we have no language or other cultural mores that are uniquely African
and i said the term black loosely... that typically refers to the peoples that were in the slave trade... barack leniage ( i fail to have a diff word lol ) doesnt trace back to this, therefore he is a true african american and not 'black'Since all blacks can trace their leniage to Africa, whether slave or not, it's not much of stretch to refer to ourselves as African-American.
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