Ollie, among most African Americans nowadays, the generally accepted formal referent is "African American" and the generally accepted informal referent is "Black" (written with either a capital "b" or a small "b"). These referents are usually interchangable when used in semi-formal writing such as blogging.

I'm respectfully asking do you think that this is the same thing as the "First Nation" [formal] and "Indian" [informal] referents in Canada, and the "Native American" [formal] and Indian [informal] referents in the USA?