Since the first people lived in Africa, and all races descended from them, aren't we all African-Americans?

Question

If we must distinguish, I guess I can say I am a White African-American, my friend is a Black African-American, and my other friend is an Asian African-American. It's logical, isn't it?

Don't anybody dispute that we all came from Africa. That is well-established.

Answer 1

Chuckle, I can't argue with logic.

Answer 2

No dispute I can think of but I did find a problem with your assumption although it does express a common misconception is the US of A.

A white “African American” as you say born and bred in, say Germany, would not actually be a white “African American”! Alas, America is not the center of the known Universe.

Your point is well taken, however and yes modern as well as ancient man did originate in Africa and since us modern humans have extincted (the dictionary does not like my derivation of the word extinct) our fellow inhabitants, Neanderthal, we are the only race currently polluting earth. I sincerely hope we do not succeed in killing our planet and therewith, ourselves.

Even science was wrong about us humans and many of us are either unaware of or still trying to wrap our minds around the concept that the blackest African is the same race as the whitest Swede.

Your point is well taken, or did I already say that?

Jim D

Answer 3

how many times is someone gonna ask this stupid question??

Answer 4

Perhaps not as well-established as you might believe.  

Adam was the first man God placed on the earth. Adam and his wife, Eve, lived in the Garden of Eden.  Where that was precisely, not exactly sure. . . but a place in Missouri called Spring Hill also known as Adam-ondi-Ahman.  This name means “Valley of God, where Adam dwelt” in “the original language spoken by Adam.”  Adam-ondi-Ahman is where God talked with Adam and the place where Adam offered up sacrifices to the Lord. At Adam-ondi-Ahman, Adam called his family together before he died so he could bless them.

Adam-ondi-Ahman will also be an important place in the future: near the time of Christ’s second coming.

So maybe we're all "Americans"

Answer 5

Indeed, we all are Lucy-like with the genes of African-Americans, descended from the criteria-ridden apes of that primeval part of the world when they as blunt wild beasts came down from the high forest trees.

But a good friend of mine insists in telling that we all came from China millions of years ago, and that some of us migrated to America thru the Strait of Bering to Alaska and then southwards until reaching South-America, while others migrated towards south-eastern Europe, and to the land where the biblical creation eventually was contrived, and to India and to Africa. But another one of my good friends sincerely believes that we, the way we look now, appeared first in South-America and then walked northwards and so thru the Straight of Bering migrated into Chinese-Siberian Asia and so, thru uncountable dramatic and tragic transformations ended up in India and in Eastern Africa, where our primeval granmother Lucy was born, and so in Western Europe and then again to America in several unrecorded waves, before Columbus after 1492 discovered and committed to the known history the existence of America, in his ignorance calling it India.

Then new Africans, who were even more humane than most Europeans, were captured in Africa by European slave-traders, or sold by Arabian slave-holders, and so brought to America as slaves. And so on ... till present day, with my hope of a less ferocious future.

Answer 6

Not really.There is a lot of difference between,'African American' and 'American African'.As  a citizen of America,you are an 'American African' though originally you were 'African American'. Simple isn't it?

Answer 7

I'm not an American-anything!