The main reason we say black and white instead of African American and Caucasian is because we are too lazy to say them.... amirite?

+251 The main reason we say black and white instead of African American and Caucasian is because we are too lazy to say them.... amirite?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

True i guess lol. Plus it kinda makes more sense as a descriptive word, so it's quicker to imagine too

by Anonymous 13 years ago

no its because not every black person is african american and not every efrican american is black

by Anonymous 12 years ago

and also because those words are so legalistic.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

And what if they black person doesn't live in America? Then they're not African American.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Also, Caucasian is inaccurate. The term refers to people from the Caucasus Mountains, which only a relatively small amount of white people actually are. The word is used to describe white people because some racist scientist in the nineteenth century found what he deemed to be the perfect skull in Caucasus Mountains and then decided all white people had this skull, so they were all Caucasian. FUN FACTS.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

It unites us all together as Americans.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

No, it's because "black" and "white" are correct. "African-American" is not a substitute for black because not all black people are American and not all people from Africa are black.

by Anonymous 12 years ago