I, as an American who grew up in Africa, do not use the term African-American to refer to American blacks. Nor do I capitalize black... now, Osama is actually an African American.
To digress even further, there is a thing going on (I have read somewhere, or heard on NPR?) about all the African refugees in the US who are African Americans but do not share the culture of bi[at least]racial-americans-whose-ancestors-were-slaves-and-slave-owners-but-who-only-acknowledge-their-black/slave-side-and-call-themselves-african-americans. There is apparently an interesting culture "war" brewing. Wonder what the difference is in IQ testing between those populations.
It's interesting the degree to which people who think of themselves as not racist actually are. My mom, one of the most inclusive people I know, actually thinks that for a white person to date a black one takes a lack of self-esteem on the part of the white one - which ASSUMES that said white person is anti-black, and that such an attitude is normal, or why would it take low self-esteem to date one?