AFRIMERICAN ©  ™  1989-2010 

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This article discuss how many inner city Afrimerican leaders, or spokes persons debate, and mostly disagree with the use of African-American, and a disagreement with the person, or persons claiming the whole race is it, and desired it.

This is one of many such articles written at the time that went largely ignored, with less than a week later, the media declaring African-American as the established nomenclature for Afrimericans despite protestations.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DEEDF1539F935A35752C0A96F948260

This is one of the first editorials that made note of Jesse Jackson declaring the race wanted to be called African-American. It then goes on to discuss the use of the term, or some variation in the late 1800’s, but it overall generalizes the matter, and leaves out the crucial element that there were many newly, or recently arrived Africans in the U.S. at the time, of the then previous 50 to 100 years prior to the beginning of the 1900’s, and many of those had had children one generation removed from Africa, and that percentage could claim such a term as a nomenclature, but even then it was not widely accepted, or acceptable by Afrimericans, then known as Negroes, who were the larger percentage of Blacks in the U.S. who were generations removed from Africa.

The reintroduction of the term by Jesse Jackson was actually the reopening of a divide that had been closed, or close to closing with the introduction use, and acceptance of the term Black.

That national and internationl acceptance of the term Black was not only a positive for Afrimericans in the U.S. but it was a universally accepted nomenclature by non-whites all over the globe, and it did more to unify the race internationally than any other term before, or since.

Additionally, the article, as does most articles on this subject from 1989/1990 advocates, or supports Jesse Jacksons claims despite the fact he was not an elected official, nor had  he taken any national vote or poll on the topic.

This editorial written by a college professor, is indicative of many Afrimerican professionals adopting African-American because to reject it would have had a negative affect on their funding and employment, despite them knowing the academic and legal truths to the contrary of Jesse Jackson’s claims.

http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-7054530.html

This article, per the headline, declares the name change as an official and accepted act despite the protestations then against it.

This, and similar articles were subliminal tools to force the term African-American on the race by ignoring, or dismissing the majority position that opposed it and who preferred the term Black.

 Also, this article uses the claim by Jesse Jackson as the unquestionable basis for using African-American despite Jesse Jackson not being an elected official, or not being in any way, a selected and accepted leader of the whole Afrimerican race, which he isn’t, and never was.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE4D61739F93AA15752C0A967958260&n=Top/Reference/Times Topics/Subjects/B/Black Culture and History

This article was written a little over a year after the term African-American was unofficially, and semi-officially given to Afrimericans. It denotes how many polls showed the race preferred Black.

This point has been true since 1989, and before, but shortly after this article was published other polls showing the same result were not published.

The media choose to be a co collaborator in misleading the race and the public on Afrimerican nomenclature.

The later polls that showed the preference for African-American were controlled polls took in controlled environments, using certain questions that would more or less automatically result in a selection of African-American. Those polls were contaminated with extreme coercive biases, and not valid despite being promoted as such.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/27/opinion/27dilday.html?_r=1&ref=opinion&oref=slogin

This more recent article discusses the term Black, and it’s preference. This article also denotes how the term Black was, and is more of an internationally unifying term of/for persons in all countries who are of African ascent.

Additionally this editorial also denotes how the use of African-American has done little to unify the race,and has actually done more harm in creating an arua of division based on the illogical false analogy the only persons born in America can be African-American as compared to persons born in Africa who move to the U.S who the false analogy clearly proves have more of a right, in more ways than one, to be identified as African-American.

It actually demonstrates that Whites can buy a Negro and use them as a mouthpiece, then use media power and resources to get Afrimericans to follow what amounts to a White mastering of deciding who/what they are instead of Afrimericans using the freedom so many died for to educate themselves of the real truths and facts of the matter, and stand by the facts.

 http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/24405/african_american_or_black_american.html

This editorial is by a person actually in born in Africa, and he gives common sense analysis, and comparison of who is and who isn’t an African-American.

He specifically details many factors that demonstrate Afrimericans, Blacks born in the United States fail to meet some basic attributes that qualify them as African, (and No, being what is called Black does not automatically make one African because there are White Africans too.)

This is one of the few articles on the subject written by a person born in Africa who was not Co-opted (bought to lie).

http://thestrategicretreat.com/why-i-hate-the-term-african-american/

This post gives clear cut examples of what an African-American is and is not.