Or to one of mine? Same thing. He's South African. Just the "wrong color" African.

What would Oprah say to a friend of $5Au's who is from South Africa and is white?

Language helps shape our thoughts. Labelling her "African-American" distances her from the rest of the generic Americans. I cannot blame her for wanting to fully assimilate into our culture. The quicker we drop the country of origin the quicker that will happen.

If one is African born and then comes to
America and becomes a US citizen, he is
STILL African, but a US citizen. So how can
he be considered an American? US citizen,
yes, but American? What am I missing? BTW, who ever hears "German-American" or "Greek-American" or "Polish-American"?
It's always African-American ( because there's more of them?? LOL!)

Glad someone else found this article as well.

It's really shameful that this is what the herd takes from what she said. She's smart enough to know her own mind, and formulate her own opinions, all based in rational thought.

This story is still trending high. Really the twitter outrage is all about her asserting her individualism. The almost savage tribal response is clear: you don 't have the right to be an individual

I've said that to my kids since they were little. It's true. :-)

from my home page...

Be who you are and say what you feel,
because people that matter don't mind ...
and people that mind don't matter!

Which, to me, means Oprah should not have opened the door to that interchange or reacted the way she did, _expecting_ the interviewee to agree with Oprah's position and looking surprised when she didn't! Don't ask a question whose answer you're not ready or willing to deal with... (or able.)

That's my response.

Makes too much sense. Nationality? American. You betcha. Want me to use the apparently politically incorrect "European American"? How about "Native American" (Hey, I was born here, makes me native to this land, eh?).

My question always has been this - why does it matter where my great grandfather's grandmother came from, except to facilitate some leftist bean counter's attempt to justify milking off the cash cow of moocherism?

Why not Homo Sapien? Terran? or yeah, Human? After all - aren't we supposed to be a color blind society??

I'm White and I have jokingly called myself a European Mutt, Then I add, yes I'm an old white dog with European ancestors.

When asked my race I reply HUMAN

Who cares?

We need more of those. Many, many more of those.

The way I see it, an African-American is a person born in Africa who emigrates to the United States and subsequently becomes a citizen. Otherwise, the term makes no sense.

Am I the only one who found this "the right
thing to do" boring?? With all that's going on
in the world, these two wealthy ladies should
have other things to discuss rather than
how they want - or do not want - to be labeled.

I thought so too. That wasn't an easy thing to do. Because it was the right thing to do.

And then endured scathing, vicious tweets from her fellows. Terrific young lady.