A controversial and failing attempt to euphemize an identity phrase for Black Americans. Unfortunately for the phrase's potential to be literally correct, all humans came from Africa at one time, therefore all people, regardless of breed, color, ethnicity or however one may choose to categorize them, are of African descent. Another problem the more-educated population has with the phrase is that the quickest way to know which specific type of African American one is referring to is to look at their skin. This takes the subject of conversation back to black, eliminating the function of the euphemistic-intentioned phrase. Due to it's failure to positively convey the identity of the Black American without error, the phrase has evolved into a dysphemism and is often spoken between air quotes.
Correct: Aboriginal Australians are black, and many of African emmigrants are black, but African Americans range in color as far as human potential has seen.
Incorrect: Jesse Jackson is an African American but Richard Nixon is not.
Incorrect: Jesse Jackson is an African American but Richard Nixon is not.
by Ruhbee! May 02, 2007
Get the African Americanmug. Bob is an alcoholic and drinks all day but his brother Steve is a workic and spends his nights in the office.
by Ruhbee! September 07, 2006
Get the Workicmug. Steve is a Googlist, and claims to have had numerous personal experiences communicating with Google.
by Ruhbee! October 29, 2007
Get the Googlistmug.