Why are black people, called African American? Options

[Kontroll]

I never really liked the term African American, first of all because its just an easy way out instead of calling a person black. Because saying some one is black is closely related to racism, some how.

Technically all people who come from Africa aren't black. If you're Egyptian and you live in America, what are you?

Another problem is that if you're born in the US and you're black, then you're not at all African American. That term only denotes that you previously resided in Africa and moved to the US.

Please discuss to further my knowledge and understanding. Thank you. Oh, and if there is already a topic about this, then close this one. Thank you.

[*WHIMSICAL 0NE*]

^ It's not always one sided. If they throw race back at you then they're just as bad in my opinion.

But I could understand where "black" and "white" aren't politically correct. There are different races, so it's not like we call someone "brown" or "orange" (Idk, orange if you have a bad self tan or something, w/e, just an example).

My first thought on reading the topic title was because their ancestors came from Africa. I guess that means that if I really wanted to I could call myself European-America even though you don't really hear that. A lot of african-americans can trace their roots back to Africa, whereas "white" people tend to be a mix of many different races (so they can't trace their roots back to ONE country)