[dogtown tom]

zukiphile .....The government racial/ethnic categories are inorganic, poorly drafted, bear on matters on which there is a genuine diversity of views, and are collected by a government that ideally wouldn't discriminate amongst people based on those categories. The government definition for "Black" includes the word "Black"; this fairly leads people to a conclusion that the people who drafted the definitions either aren't bright, or that they settled on compromises in definition that are not well considered.

Yet a significant number of Americans prefer the term "Black" because they don't feel any connection to Africa and the term "African American". Remember when the favored and common term was "Colored", then "Negro", then "Black" then "African American"? To quote Whoopi Goldberg: “Every time... you hyphenate American, anytime you put something in front of it, it's like you're not a real American. Well, I'm a whole lot of all American!”