Conversation thread

America is a county of immagrants. The preponderance of us all have roots from somewhere else, but only certain groups have chosen or are labeled, inappropriately, as hyphens. By way of example, the vast majority of African Americans are generations removed from Africa. They, their parents and grand-parents and maybe even great, grand parents were all born in the states... so what about them is African?

By the way. They also did not choose to come here but were rather ripped from their homes to come and work in our plantations as slaves. Or has that been ripped from your history books.

because they developed a unique culture that was based on the fact that they were marginalized in this country for well over 200 years. Being segregated and labeled produces adaptions. Brown v. Board of Education was in 1954. Jim Crowe laws continued through the 1960s. That's not that long ago.