Sad to learn that activist Ramona Edelin has died at age 78. In the late 1980s, she helped popularize the term "African American" and saw it as more than just a name — she once posed the question, “Who are we if we don’t acknowledge our motherland?” Rest In Power✊🏿
Black Americans whose families and offspring living here in America before the Ellis Island, Muriel boat-lift, Hmong, Somali, Iraqi, and recent Hispanic immigration waves are American. Newly arrived Africans with African passports working for their American citizenship are African-American. Let's Stop living in a Hyphen-Nation... usep.net/hot-topics/liv… The vast majority of American Blacks have no realistic idea of what Africa is, and couldn't spontaneously name five African nations and their capitals if questioned. American Blacks need to stop hyphenating their identities and start living as the real Americans they are... I mean what if Whites started calling themselves "European-Americans"