Originally Posted by
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From my thread I wanted to clear up the notion that I was an apologist for other black peoples behavior. Some posters said they were embarrassed.
I personally don't like to use the word ghetto, because it is a monicker that stuck on people of African desecent living areas that were connoted as black, during the civil rights era. We use to live in a slum or 'across the tracks!' Some people will use the word, like I did right off the top of their heads, such as, "Don't go down there, that's the ghetto!", or phrases like that. I had stated before that I don't use the word African American to describe myself or others of African descent, because I can't take the weight of a continent of identifying who I am; my ancestors were taken from a country in Africa. A Nigerian American won't take it too kindly to someone calling them an African American, because they claim nationalism, first! I can't honestly make that assertion, because my ancestors were taken from their countries in Africa and brought here. It's a basic fundemental of all people to know where the nationalism lies. A Frenchman doesn't call himself a European! I personally hold firm to that belief. So therefore, I am an American, first with African??? roots!
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