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In article <1992Dec15.101822.27928@Princeton.EDU> niepornt@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (David Marc Nieporent) writes:
>This was a dumb rebuttal to Schmidling's idiotic post.  Schmidling, your
>post was stupid because it made no sense.  (1) There is no such thing as
>"African culture."  Any more than there is such a thing as "European
>culture."  (2) African-American's are not by definition promoting
>African culture at all.  (3) When you say they are "promoting a
>different culture," what do you mean?  Different than what?  Different
>than non-African-Americans?  Sure.  But Italian-Americans promote a
>different culture than non-Italian-Americans, and you never seem to be
>complaining that Italian-Americans can't sustain "our" civilization.

First of all, I said culture not civilization.  In fact I said nothing
other than changing what someone else said I said to reflect what I would
have said if I were asked.

I couldn't agree with you more and that simply proves the idocy of the
term African American.  It is meaningless, Madison Ave mush.

I happen to have been born in South Africa and am white as the driven
ssnow.  Therefore I am an African-American, right?  Need I go on?