I thought they got a special different name because they had so many previous names that became inappropriate as they were considered racist. Negro was the preferred term for a while, then coloured. Obviously people had to stop using those terms because of all the negative connotations that they had developed, so they settled on African American because it described what most of them were without negative connotations.
IIN I wonder why black people in the US are called African-Americans?
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I thought they got a special different name because they had so many previous names that became inappropriate as they were considered racist. Negro was the preferred term for a while, then coloured. Obviously people had to stop using those terms because of all the negative connotations that they had developed, so they settled on African American because it described what most of them were without negative connotations.