I never said the first black people of the Caribbean weren't 'imported'.
I said that many have closer ancestral ties to the Caribbean than they do Africa, as in the most recent home of their ancestors outside of the US is the Caribbean. So using terms like African American can be misleading or inappropriate. I mean, if you trace all our heritage back far enough, we're all African-something or other. 'Black' is a better term.
Is it normal to be infuriated by the term
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I never said the first black people of the Caribbean weren't 'imported'.
I said that many have closer ancestral ties to the Caribbean than they do Africa, as in the most recent home of their ancestors outside of the US is the Caribbean. So using terms like African American can be misleading or inappropriate. I mean, if you trace all our heritage back far enough, we're all African-something or other. 'Black' is a better term.