Why are black people, called African American? Options

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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.

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I think we're on different pages here. I was arguing against that specific concept D: .

But the thing is, the term race can't really be applied to make distinctions amongst humans because there's no sufficient scientific basis to prove there are different races within the whole human group.

There is a Black population, a Caucasian population, etc... under the Human race. However there isn't a Black, Caucasian, etc... "sub race" in the biological sense of the word; hence why the usage of the concept of population/cline is more correct in relation to the empirical evidence provided by science.