| No, it makes no sense to claim to be an African-American for the reasons that people have already posted. I, too, have a white friend who was born in South Africa and has a hell of a better reason to call himself an African-American than any of the modern-day black Americans who have never even stepped foot in Africa.
Add to that the fact that Africa itself has no common nationality, even if you were born in one of the African countries and had a dual-citizenship there, you wouldn't be African-American, you'd be Kenyan-American or whatever.
If you want to be really accurate, since all of humanity originated in Africa, we're ALL AFRICAN-AMERICANS!
The whole idea is silly, it's yet another attempt to lump a group of people together because of their skin color and make believe you've got a large block of same-thinking individuals. |