Reply #36: Sigh of relief [View All]

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Thanks, all. I was afraid that my post would be considered insensitive.. Last year, or two, the stunning actress Charlize Theron was the hostess of Saturday Night Live. She is from South Africa and introduced herself as African-American and I thought it was clever then but, then, this was SNL...

Of course there is also north Africa but we describe the people from there - Morocco, Algiers, Tunisia, Egypt - as Arabs.

I, too, find the term black the easiest, but someone once said that this describes a person in what s/he is not - white. I don't know. I am not good at PC.

And then there is Colin Powell who is described as African-American but was born in Jamaica.

Again, thank all for the interesting posts.