Confusion, even at the highest level

[Wilson Gray]

"[Name], played by _African-American_ actor Isaac C. Singleton, Jr., and
[Name], played by the _black_ English actor, Treva Etienne."

- Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

I'd have expected "African-English" or "African-British," if the prefix,
_African-_, had any real, independent use other than as a sad, depressing
calque on "Irish-American" et sim.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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