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it's not a war over her race - it's one over what that race is called in america. a black person in germany and an african-american are the same race. that race is not "african-american." american is a nationality, not a race. with nationality the question is, should she be called african-american. the answer in my opinion is no. after several generations in a country, you are now from that country. her dad was jamaican. his dad was jamaican. and so on so forth. many generations back, the person came from africa. and after a few generations in jamaica, i'd call them 'jamaicans.' the race of those jamaicans is the black race. spain colonized belgium a long time ago. then a spanish person starts a family there. many generations later, a guy moves to america. is he spanish-american now? of course not. he's clearly of belgian descent. just like harris is of jamaican descent. in fact, he only speaks french or german. btw, the race of spanish people is white - not spanish, not spanish-american. but hey, don't let that stop us from calling white spanish people "latino" - or latinX. like mutantX the x-men b-side tv show. it's as offensive as calling the qatari and qataria "cuttery." but we do that too. nukular. the issue here, which is what's actually being fought on wikipedia despite what that propaganda article falsely states, is that we mistakenly call all blacks african-american. an issue europe (where i'm originally from) does not have. heck, while living in france, I've observed annoying american tourists call french blacks african-american. the issue here is being purposely dense to serve a narrative and create an anger war, which the extremely bias article is doing. harris is black-indian, or black-asian if you don't pronounce your r. that is her race. now do we call black "african" just like we call white "caucasian?" that indeed is a valid point. however adding the "-american" to it, and calling the result a "race" makes that point unnecessary to debate, since the result is no longer a race. i wonder if the white people and arab people from africa are black too. i'm a white jew. I guess i'm african-american now too. |