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iPhone_7
07/16/18 9:38:36 PM
#1:


Which is the appropriate term? - Results (20 votes)
African-American
5% (1 vote)
1
Black
95% (19 votes)
19
nt.
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Kazi1212
07/16/18 9:39:00 PM
#2:


Black. Elon Musk is African American
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boxington
07/16/18 9:39:59 PM
#3:


either one, or both, depending on what the person prefers.
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DarkTransient
07/16/18 9:44:25 PM
#4:


It's not the term (unless you're using the N word or something like that), it's the context you use it in.
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known2FAIL
07/16/18 9:45:02 PM
#5:


I don't care either way
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Touch
07/16/18 9:45:22 PM
#6:


What about African-african
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rikasa
07/16/18 9:45:54 PM
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i don't want to assume I know where their family comes from, i prefer a neutral descriptor of their appearance
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SSJCAT
07/16/18 9:48:55 PM
#8:


black
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Iodine
07/17/18 3:51:57 PM
#9:


It largely depends on context. Idris Elba isn't African-American. He is black.
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Taharqa_
07/17/18 3:54:45 PM
#10:


Both are appropriate, one is just more formal than the other and at the same time dileneates US descendants of the African diaspora from continental Africans, Afro-Latinos and Afro-Caribbeans. All are black but with their own distinct history and nationality.
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