Americans Of All Colors Defined!

July 05-2008:

WORD-UP:

What Is An Aborigine?

1. The earliest known inhabitants of a region:

2. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.

Of course these definitions were coined by European colonizers, and may not be the accepted definition of those to whom it infers.

What Is A Native American?

This is also a definition that European settlers and colonizers of this country used, to identify the first known settlers of the American continent.
But these indigenous peoples or nations, would tell anyone who wants to know the truth. That they are not Americans. They are the original nations of this continent, and subsequently forced to become Americans by law.

What Is An African American?

The description African American is a politically chosen description, for those who so self identify. Mostly those whose ancestors were brought to the United States as slaves. These Black peoples' were from different nations or regions in the continent of Africa.

Be that as it may, the descendents of former Black slaves may not necessarily so self identify. But may choose to call themselves Black Americans, or Americans Of Color.

Whichever category one chooses, is based on personal choice!

Derryck S. Griffith.
Educator-Advocate & Blogger.
NYC.