"African American" = 'black'

[Wilson Gray]

It probably originated among the same people unable to distinguish between
_till_ and *_'til_.

-Wilson

On 5/5/06, Charles Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:
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> Subject:      "African American" = 'black'
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> 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."
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> --Charlie
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> >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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