Enzo wrote:We had another one, where the same local anchor was reporting on SOuth Africa after Nelson Mandela took over as president back when. She announced that "Nelson Mandela today appointed the first African AMerican ever to serve in a cabinet position in SOUth Africa."
I called her, and asked if he really appointed an African AMerican, and she assured me it was a true report. She didn't get it. I asked was she sure he was an American. DING, the light came on. "Ohhhh. Well I didn't want to say 'black,' you see." Why not? No good answer there.
Khrushchev's Other Shoe wrote:I guess they could call him an African African.
Is a white guy from South Africa who moves to the US an African American?
Enzo wrote:Autobahn
I called her, and asked if he really appointed an African AMerican, and she assured me it was a true report. She didn't get it. I asked was she sure he was an American. DING, the light came on. "Ohhhh. Well I didn't want to say 'black,' you see." Why not? No good answer there.
troubleagain wrote:I'm pretty much white-bread colored myself. Not quite sour-cream or milk colored, but very danged close. :( :wink:
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