[Charles28698]

I beleive there are two reasons: (1) People from ‘those’ countries are fiercely proud of their heritage/culture and want you to acknowledge it and (2) being ‘black’ often carries a negative connotation. When you consider statistics regarding blacks, they are rarely positive. To wit, education level, median income, teeanage pregnancy, incarceration rates, etc. While not all blacks fit the above ‘stereotypes’, you find a higher percentage of ‘blacks’ in those negative categories than Whites and Asians. Being labeled in that group is a negative, so I believe some darker pigmented people choose to be ‘other’ races. I know a black lady born here in the states who went so far as to create an ‘exotic’ accent so she would be better accepted by America. I myself am black and prefer it to ‘African-American’. Black, for me, connotes survivor of slavery, creator of the FIRST AMERICAN music genre – jazz, creators of ‘cool’ that so many races and culture want to emulate and many other things. A white Afrikaaner (sp?) could come to the U.S. and be an African American.

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Name : Charles28698, City : Pasadena, State : CA, Country : United States, 

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