I'm black, from Ivory Coast to be exact.
Also, read what maddox wrote about the term ''African American''
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Updates to my site have been slow lately, so some of you have taken this as an invitation for you to send me your stupid topics to write about. Even if I suddenly had a lapse in judgement and decided that it would be a good idea to take suggestions for topics from you idiots, I think I would come to my senses as soon as I read the first few. Here's why (Note: these are all real suggestions people have sent me, right down to the grammar and spelling mistakes):
# write sumthn bout african americans!!!
First of all, the label "African American" is the dumbest, most persistently used phrase in our vernacular. Every time you call someone an "African American," you're making at least two assumptions about the person:
1. That the person is an American. For example, if you saw this guy walking along on a street, you would probably think:
![](http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/images/african_american_lol2.jpg)
...which is fine, except for one small detail: this man is British, which makes you a presumptuous cock
2. That the person is African (because it's inconceivable that black people could come from Haiti, India, Trinidad, Dominican Republic, Brazil, Australia, or Jamaica). Nevermind that; BLACK PEOPLE ONLY COME FROM AFRICA.
Not to mention that every time you give a black person the distinction of being "African American" out of a mixed group, you're making an assumption about an entire continent; not everyone from Africa is black. I guarantee all you politically correct morons out there have never called a white person an African American. Of course you could avoid all these problems by using the same standards on blacks as you would on whites by simply assuming that all whites are from Africa just as you do for all blacks, but that might be too forward, and in a polite society like ours, people would be all too pleased to point out which of the 192 countries you didn't guess they were actually from.
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