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Thread #16896   Message #162381
Posted By: Terry Allan Hall
13-Jan-00 - 06:38 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Mr. Lincoln (Hank Williams Jr.)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Mr.Lincoln
I have a very dear freind from Ghana who is very amused by the term "African-American"...he's called himself an "American" ever since he and his wife and kids became such.

He's even more amused by blacks who wish to go back to "The Motherland"...it seems he and his wife spent 15 years saving up enough to "leave the poverty and ignorance of Africa" (his words), and often says he wishes his ancestors had ran slower when the other tribes were out catching slaves...he's not particularily "PC", I'm afraid!...

For that matter, I'd have to refer to myself as a Cherokee-Scot-Irish-Welsh-French-Cantonese-English(in order of quantity)-American...I guess "mutt" might be easier...or just "American"...of Texas ancestry!