army1987 comments on When Truth Isn't Enough - Less Wrong

91 Post author: Yvain 22 March 2009 08:23PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 10 August 2012 07:13:45PM 6 points [-]

If you used e.g. "black", "colored" and "African-American", then it'd be about connotations.

Well... I'm pretty sure a dark-skinned Nigerian who has never been to America and has no recent American ancestors would count as black but not as African-American.