Note: This is defining the term, not the people.
A ridiculous and ill applied label that was accepted with a thoughtless rush just to make white people feel at ease and slightly noble.
A ridiculous and ill applied label that was accepted with a thoughtless rush just to make white people feel at ease and slightly noble.
Those African Americans are great!
by David Cross19484 October 6, 2009
Get the African Americanmug. A person of African descent now living in the united states, who makes a living by selling clothing articles.
"Which of the following best represents Mr. Griffin? Problem drinker, or African American haberdasher?"
by Phleemeister June 16, 2016
Get the african american haberdashermug. A variation of the game of chess. It's played just like regular chess except the black pieces always move first.
by Webb2012 April 24, 2021
Get the African american chessmug. by Ryan Vasquez April 29, 2006
Get the african-american engineermug. Someone who is black and living in America who recently came from Africa.
This differentiates from people who's ancestors came as slaves over 400 years ago and yet still call themselves African Americans.
This differentiates from people who's ancestors came as slaves over 400 years ago and yet still call themselves African Americans.
"People like Barak Obama because he is a well spoken, clean African African American and not a regular African American."
by Rolling Thunder February 22, 2007
Get the African African Americanmug. by dildo777 September 27, 2018
Get the white african americanmug. Same meaning as "Nigger in the woodpile" just more "politically correct." It means there is black ancestry (or Native American) in a white person's "bloodline."
Suzie had a great, great, great uncle who was a black man. He is said to be the "Nigger in the Woodpile".
With all this political correctness, you can't say there's a nigger in the woodpile anymore, you have to say there's an African American in the Lumberyard.
With all this political correctness, you can't say there's a nigger in the woodpile anymore, you have to say there's an African American in the Lumberyard.
by HfromGA April 16, 2008
Get the African American in the Lumberyardmug.