r/MurderedByWords Dec 11 '19

Murder Someone call an ambulance

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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...

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u/afiefh Dec 11 '19

Americans from Egyptian origin are brown, but they are technically African Americans. Good luck making sense of this.

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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.

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u/Shifter25 Dec 11 '19

No, yeah, we get the concept. It's just not very useful.