Is Floyd Mayweather African American?

[deliveryman]

which term?

African-American.

[Weebler I]

About 4 or so?

it's far more than that especially given the age mortality rate and how young people used to have children in those times.

[Dubious-Dutch]

I do understand the need to grasp roots in a way but I often wonder where are the English-Americans?

Is it only the disaffected groups who reach for their ancestry?

It may have to do with the amount of Irish immigrants that came to Ellis Island...... Italian, Irish , ***s. They banded together as groups and associated in communities. Even till this day it is like that in certain areas.

[deliveryman]

it's far more than that especially given the age mortality rate and how young people used to have children in those times.

Regardless, it's still significantly less.

[KiloTeague]

I do understand the need to grasp roots in a way but I often wonder where are the English-Americans?

Is it only the disaffected groups who reach for their ancestry?

Well I love informing you that English Americans thought of themselves as Americans period. Now when the english brought over Africans they didn't have the same rights as Americans. Now over the years Blacks wanted the same rights but English americans didn't and wouldn't call Africans, Americans. So they gave Blacks the name African Americans to distiguish themselves from Blacks. They wanted there to be a difference. Blacks didn't care about name, they just wanted rights. Along the way they embraced there heritage with there rights. Now years later you act as if Blacks had the choices to all these years to be called just americans, ha ha ha. White people gave blacks the N-word as well as African american. White people choose the disaffected groups and name them.

[deliveryman]

I do understand the need to grasp roots in a way but I often wonder where are the English-Americans?

Is it only the disaffected groups who reach for their ancestry?

English-Americans is just as valid as African-Americans. It just isn't used because they aren't a minority.

[MANGLER]

Wow. TS said this was a joke thread on page 2. Cats sure do take racial/ethnic **** seriously around here.

[Weebler I]

African-American.

how can this be so? you can't exempt north africa from the term African.

[deliveryman]

how can this be so? you can't exempt north africa from the term African.

Africa didn't exactly have the same "borders" 2000 years ago than they do now.

And they're not exempting Northern Africa from the term "African". They're exempting Northern Africa from the term "African-American"

Note that the word is HYPHENATED. "African" and "American", aren't separate. It is a single idea.

[Weebler I]

English-Americans is just as valid as African-Americans. It just isn't used because they aren't a minority.

slight difference in that Africa is a continent and England is a country but I agree with your point about the minority. It seems ********** feel the need to stick together or is it just disaffected groups.

Are English-Americans really a majority given that there are 40 million Irish Americans, probably millions of Scots Americans, Mexican Americans, African-Americans etc etc