Good post, sir. On another note... black or not, I'm just as Amurricuhn as any melanin-challenged citizen, if not moreso. I can show you documents of where my folks in Ohio go back 10 generations...BORN HERE---in Ohio. not overseas, or dumped off a boat either onto Ellis Island or onto an auction block in South Carolina .. but RAHT HERE. As such, if you ask me (or my kids) what we are, we are just plain black. And American, and Ohioan. "African-American" just doesn't seem to fit us... I don't know nobody from Africa, never been, don't want to go, haven't had a relative from there in at least 250 years. And to answer a previous poster..."colored" ehhh... no, please. It implies that white is not a color. LOL