[Najee C.]

I do not now nor have I ever thought of myself as an African. I’m not from Africa and I can’t even trace my family lineage back to Africa. As a matter of fact it’s been easier to trace my the scottish and italian lineage on my mother’s side than to find what tribe I descend from in Africa. I can only speak for myself but I don’t feel as if I would have any more in common with a random African than with your ‘all-american’ which I assume is white. America is a country full of immigrants whether they’ve been brought here forcibly or in search of freedom and oppurtunity. I’m an American who happens to be black or as my grandmother would say, colored. I personally don’t refer to myself as an African American or a person of African descent because that’s really not how I identify myself. What about black Brazilians and Cubans and Jamaicans and Haitians and Bahamians, etc. Most first identify themselves by their nationality and maybe their race. Africa is all too well distanced from myself geographically, chronologically and culturally for me to really draw that inference and for your information i don’t wear braids, white folk have muscles too and negro spirituals to me are as great a part of American culture as apple pie. Being white and black is not what defines America, it is more our great culture and the value we place on freedom and opportunity for all. Our nation’s past has been turblent and marked by the antithesis of what I said before but it has been American’s black, white, red, yellow and et cetera, et cetera that have moved us closer to that definition. So to conclude, I sure as hell am an American.

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Name : Najee C., Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Black/African American, Age : 17, City : Miami, State : FL, Country : United States, Occupation : Student, Social class : Upper middle class, 

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