"African American" = 'black'

[Charles Doyle]

BTW:  Among students, hyper-sensitive to racial terminology
if not (other) realities, it's not at all uncommon to find
black Africans referred to as "African Americans."

--Charlie
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>Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-
>Poster:       Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
>Subject:      Re: "obtain" 'suffer/incur'
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. . . the semi-apocryphal "The budget is back in the African-
American".
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>LH

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