"The American black" is a little bit further along the spectrum of discourse even than "American blacks".

This is absurd. So even Azizi allows as how "black" is perfectly fine, but I can't use the article "the" in a sentence before I talk about an American black? Can I use "an" before "American black"?

I'm all for manners and respect (though I get little if any of it here). I'm even for the etiquette that was the initial appeal of politically correct speech. But I'm sorry, you're just trying to find some way of taking offense at what I'm saying, and rather than discuss the issue/philosophy, you'd rather red herring off into this minutia.