In the early 90s, in the Midwest, speaking to a homeless Indian man, who didn't particularly like being referred to as Native, or Indigenous, or any other urbane term for American Indians, he said, "I'm just Indian." We (the Indian man and I) laughed, but looking back, I get where he was coming from more than then. In other words, don't try to dress it (race) up with any preconceived ideas of political correctness, just be plain spoken, though respectful.
I heartily embrace all of my different heritages, however, I don't go by the term African-American that Mr. Roegner (a.k.a. "Rogue-ner"), the columnist, indirectly referred to me as when mentioning my write-in candidacy for Council (Position 6), because I have more than 1 or 2 distinct heritages, including Indigenous American and west European (my maternal side has a higher percentage of indigenous blood than anything). Many dark-skinned people have multiple heritages, believe it or not.
I prefer the wonderfully more amorphous "black," socially and biologically, if I need to be racially characterized, or categorized, even if globalist left-wing radical activist Jesse Jackson, who pretty much coined the term "African-American" a generation ago, doesn't approve.
Long generational descendants of America, from several or many heritages, not just Africa, may have far-flung or negligible (real-time) connections with the continents of their ancestors, if any at all; so even though we're all connected with the past in significant ways, a whole lot of us just consider ourselves American, grounded in a Western culture, and wanting to renew, without the McCarthyism or other oddities, the fairly recently past public vanguard of American mores.
-- Mark Greene, Write-In Candidate for Federal Way City Council, Position 6
[Revised on 9/23/17.]
I heartily embrace all of my different heritages, however, I don't go by the term African-American that Mr. Roegner (a.k.a. "Rogue-ner"), the columnist, indirectly referred to me as when mentioning my write-in candidacy for Council (Position 6), because I have more than 1 or 2 distinct heritages, including Indigenous American and west European (my maternal side has a higher percentage of indigenous blood than anything). Many dark-skinned people have multiple heritages, believe it or not.
I prefer the wonderfully more amorphous "black," socially and biologically, if I need to be racially characterized, or categorized, even if globalist left-wing radical activist Jesse Jackson, who pretty much coined the term "African-American" a generation ago, doesn't approve.
Long generational descendants of America, from several or many heritages, not just Africa, may have far-flung or negligible (real-time) connections with the continents of their ancestors, if any at all; so even though we're all connected with the past in significant ways, a whole lot of us just consider ourselves American, grounded in a Western culture, and wanting to renew, without the McCarthyism or other oddities, the fairly recently past public vanguard of American mores.
-- Mark Greene, Write-In Candidate for Federal Way City Council, Position 6
[Revised on 9/23/17.]
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