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Why is he referred to as African American?


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Because people are racist towards Brits.

Or maybe it's because he's a Londoner...

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Maybe its a honorary title given by Hollywood like the "Honorary white" in apartheid era South Africa

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Probably because he does such a good American accent, many people don't realize he's British.

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Come on froggy...your answer is way to sensibe!😉
Actually it would have been a hoot 3 months ago...when I read three articles that referenced him as African American. Common joes...sure! Paid jounalists? I expect more...and am always humbled for my expectations😠

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Well, journalism has become a desperate job, scrambling to make money, hiring from the bottom of the barrel. All the misspellings and grammatical errors are the things that bug me the most.

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Yup that too...we take more time composing this non sense...and what thanks so we get?

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It's a thing in White America to call anyone who is black "African American" instead of "black" as if saying "black" is a racial epithet of some kind. I knew a guy who wouldn't say "Negril" when in Jamaica because he though black natives would think he was calling them Negros. It's a perversity of PC culture. It's so pervasive, that you get to hear "African American" even if the subject isn't American!

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In South Africa, there are some people who prefer the term coloured instead of black even though it's not appropriate in the US. Different cultures prefer different terms. American liberals often fall into the same issues as American conservatives n that they insist on their world view and think they're doing anyone any favors.

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I've no idea seeing as he's English and from London.

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Ha ha. This reminds me of a television interview I saw many years ago. A reporter from one of the major US television networks (I forget which one) was interviewing black British athlete Kriss Akabusi after being a member of the 400 metres relay team that took the gold medal at the 1991 Athletics World Championships. The interviewer started off with:

"So, Kriss, what does this mean to you as an African-American?"

"I'm not American, I'm British"

"Yes, but as a British African-American ..."

"I'm not African. I'm not American. I'm British."

This went on for some time before the reporter got so flustered that she gave up and went to interview someone else. I guess more than anything else it demonstrates the potential absurdity of political correctness -- this reporter was so tied-up with the idea that the "correct" term for someone of afro-caribbean ancestry was African-American and not Black that she couldn't cope with the fact that many black people are neither African nor American...

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Because he's British. (duh) :-)

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