Quote Originally Posted by quickdodgeŽ View Post
Your question is automatically null and void from the get go. White people did NOT out the "prefix" African in front of American. This is a term that black Americans wanted to be used when describing their race. Although used often in the black communities, it was more widely accepted after Jesse Jackson used the term in a speech.

This is actually the case with most all of these terms. They were all coined by people of those races they describe as a way to identify and join their cultural ancestry and their new home in America.
This answer was automatically null and void when you mentioned Jesse Jackson.