Black Americans

From Yahoo News:
"Some blacks insist: 'I'm not African-American'"

The labels used to describe Americans of African descent mark the movement of a people from the slave house to the White House. Today, many are resisting this progression by holding on to a name from the past: "black." For this group — some descended from U.S. slaves, some immigrants with a separate history — "African-American" is not the sign of progress hailed when the term was popularized in the late 1980s. Instead, it's a misleading connection to a distant culture. "I prefer to be called black," said Shawn Smith, an accountant from Houston. "How I really feel is, I'm American." "I don't like African-American. It denotes something else to me than who I am," said Smith, whose parents are from Mississippi and North Carolina. "I can't recall any of them telling me anything about Africa. They told me a whole lot about where they grew up in Macomb County and Shelby, N.C."

^ I have been using the term "black" for many years now. It just seems and feels weird to say African American. No one calls me Caucasian-American. Hopefully the ultra PC of the 1990s and 2000s is over. ^

http://news.yahoo.com/blacks-insist-im-not-african-american-