American or African American?

Well I refer to myself as Black NOT African American because I'm not from Africa even though somewhere along the line my ancestors had to have come from Africa & mixed with the Carib Indians when they were brought to the Caribbean islands to harvest the sugar cane there & then came to America. Yes it is true some of the African leaders did sell their slaves to the Americans but some were actually taken too. The African Americans here don't like the fact that we black americans call ourselves that becuase it's technically not right & blah blah blah. It's all politically correct crap because they don't want to offend anybody. And a lot of employers don't use Black American anyways, they use African American :f6:..I say if you were born here, you're an American, even though some countries don't see it as that..they see the 'typical American' as being white, & whatever ethnicity you are(non-white), you're from that country.

Ty, I was trying to remember the other argument I always hear - "well, when I took ___ test, it said African American, not Black American"

Pure BS, like you said - it "sounds" more correct, so it is used more frequently.