[WikiEN-l] Primer on PC (for Ed)

[Charles Matthews]

Sean Barrett wrote

.> "African-American" most emphatically does not
> mean "American from Africa" -- it is nothing more nor less than a
> seven-syllable synonym for "Negro," "black," and "descendant of
> natives of central Africa."

An Irish-American, self-identified, may never have left Boston MA.  Your
point?

Charles