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In article <01bc0666$68911260$fe8562cf@goodnet.goodnet.com> "Steve MacGregor" <SteveMac@GoodNet.Com> writes:
>Brian J Goggin <bjg@wordwrights.ie> wrote in article
><32e29397.96002638@news.ieunet.ie>...
>
><<Is it true that an American journalist asked Nelson Mandela what it
>felt like to be the first Afro-American leader of South Africa? Or is
>this an urban legend?>>
>
>  Not a legend -- American journalists really =can= be that obtuse.

They can.  But what actually happened, or what actually attracted
publicity, is that some black leader (in the U.S.) referred to Mandela
as African-American.

(Afro-American didn't live very long.  In historical sequence, the
official appellation of those U.S. citizens who are largely descended 
from African slaves has run :
  Negro
  Afro-American
  Black
  African-American.

The last is still very much P.C.)

Daan Sandee                            
Burlington, MA          Use this email address:  sandee (at) cmns . think . com