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I Have A Funny Friend

My friend says she doesn't like calling black people black and only calls them "African-American". So I asked her what she calls white people and she said, "white".

So I told her, "then you should call the white people European American if you call the black people African American."

She said no.

What are your thoughts, people of SW? (Not my problem, just a little funny random chat we have, and my responses are joking around as I always do)

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bijouxbroussard · F

Racially, black is just as valid a term as white is. At some point she’s going to meet a black person who doesn’t use the term “African-American” because they’re West Indian or can actually identify their African country of origin—or they’re a black person from yet [b]another[/b] country, other than the U.S.A. That will be an education for her. She has prejudices she’s unaware of.