Reply #20: There is no such thing as an "African American"

[karlrschneider]

any more than there is a "European American" or an "Asian American."
These are all horse-shit adjectives invented to appease or comfort some segment of the populace and have no real meaning.

And to expand the discussion, it should be noted that there's really no such thing as even a "native American" because we simply do not know PRECISELY who inhabited what is now North America several thousand years ago. All this discussion is just bullshit, really. My ancestors came from Germany (I only know about 4 generations of ancestors) and it would never occur to me to refer to myself as a "German-American".

My point is this: GET OVER IT! You aren't responsible for your ancestors, whoever the hell they were! Not ONE GODDAMN human on the planet bears any responsibility for what your great-great-grandparents may or may have not done. They are dead forever and nothing you can do or say can ameliorate whatever sins they may have committed.

And in 500 (or more probably 100) years, it's unlikely that whatever is left of the hominid species will have even heard of you or me, let alone 'care' about us. IMO, the sooner "we" become extinct, the better.
And here's the obligatory :grr: