All American Americans
As American as apple pie, Uncle Sam and anything else American you c an think of
American History 101
Something I’ve said for years and it’s great to finally hear at least TWO other people say it.
Stop 100 Americans on the street, black and white. Whose ancestors are most likely to have been in America the LONGEST?
On average, the black people.
Why?
Though the kidnapping, terrorism, torture and abuse of human beings (aka “slavery”) was legal in the US until the 1860s, the importation of Africans for the purpose of slavery was banned in 1808.
That means just about every black person you see – not counting Caribbean or African immigrants – has an American pedigree that goes back to at least the 18th century (1700s.) A huge percentage of white Americans – like me – can only trace their arrival in the US to the late 19th century and early 20th.
Does it matter who got here when? Not really.
But anyone who insists on saying African-Americans but not also Irish-, Italian-, Polish- etc. Americans is doing something linguistically and conceptually strange. In my humble opinion.
Americans. Often great Americans too.
Smokey Robinson agrees.
Why is a black American an “African-American” forever no matter how long his or her family has been here, but an Irish-American or Italian-American or Chinese-American can drop that label in just one generation?
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