Re: [arn-l Digest] Vol. 1 No. 487 Messages: 9

["George K Cunningham" <gkc@louisville.edu>]

Ken,

How come you are no longer talking up the candidacy of Howard Dean?  I
thought he was your candidate.

African American is not hyphenated and why is a person born in Africa
who becomes an American citizen not  African American?  Yes if I was
born in Africa and became a U.S. citizen, I would proudly call myself an
African American.

Are you unable to make an argument without ad hominem allusions?  Isn't
that rhetorical overkill for what you perceive as the misuse of the term
African American?

George K. Cunningham
University of Louisville

>>> kber@earthlink.net 02/09/2004 5:00:52 PM >>>
Being born in Africa does not make one an African-American, and Goerge
Cunningham is being too clever by half

Or will you, George, Claim that if you were born in Africa, that makes
you African-American?  Since I seriously doubt it,  me reaction before
stands. 

and again   methinks by this kind of cleverness, we really should look
for his pillow case and hood

Ken Bernstein

Kenneth J. Bernstein