Sequence: Negro. Colored. Afro-American. Black. African-American
Alonzo Felder,
Durham, NC.
Called by many names over the years.
I’ll Call Myself Whatever I Want
Samantha Lauren
New York, NY
Hate when people have the audacity to say to ANYONE that they ought to “just call themselves American” instead of Afro-American, Asian-American, Polish-American, or whatever. I am an American and as an American it’s my RIGHT to identify however I choose; I am an American of African descent, therefore I’m an Afro-American. No further discussion needed.
I’m an American not Afro-American
Kelvin Scruggs
Gulfport, MS
Is the United States of America the only nation that classifies people by race at birth? At one time it was important classify people by race. The Three-Fifths Compromise was a compromise between Southern and Northern states reached during the Philadelphia Convention of 1787 in which three-fifths of the enumerated population of slaves would be counted for representation purposes regarding both the distribution of taxes and the apportionment of the members of the United States House of Representatives. It is 226 years later and as a nation we still have not learned the concept of the human race.
