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r/MurderedByWords • u/iTriggerChuds • Dec 11 '19
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That phrase also assumes they are american...
And there are plenty of white African americans...
It makes no sense at all.
Edit: We all know about Elon, you can stop telling me about him...
120 u/afiefh Dec 11 '19 Americans from Egyptian origin are brown, but they are technically African Americans. Good luck making sense of this. -3 u/Morphezeuz Dec 11 '19 Africa, the continent. Thats why its African American. Because most black people in America are descendents of Slaves from Africa. 7 u/Shifter25 Dec 11 '19 No, yeah, we get the concept. It's just not very useful.
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Americans from Egyptian origin are brown, but they are technically African Americans. Good luck making sense of this.
-3 u/Morphezeuz Dec 11 '19 Africa, the continent. Thats why its African American. Because most black people in America are descendents of Slaves from Africa. 7 u/Shifter25 Dec 11 '19 No, yeah, we get the concept. It's just not very useful.
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Africa, the continent. Thats why its African American. Because most black people in America are descendents of Slaves from Africa.
7 u/Shifter25 Dec 11 '19 No, yeah, we get the concept. It's just not very useful.
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No, yeah, we get the concept. It's just not very useful.
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u/Darkman101 Dec 11 '19 edited Dec 12 '19
That phrase also assumes they are american...
And there are plenty of white African americans...
It makes no sense at all.
Edit: We all know about Elon, you can stop telling me about him...