When I recently wrote that President elect Barack Obama is not black, I guess you could call me any manner of things, including politically incorrect.
I was making a point about Obama being labeled as black by the media. Why didn't they label him as white? Because it isn't politically correct to label someone who looks black as anything but black. I hate political correctness as much as I hate politics.
What-American?
I don't care where your ancestors came from. If you call yourself an "African-American", "Mexican-American", "Filipino-American" or whatever, it properly represents you as a naturalized immigrant in the United States of America. If you were born in the US, or of at least one American parent, you're simply an American. If the "whatever-American" terms were used for everyone, there's wouldn't be any plain "Americans" at all (except for the native tribes of America).
Only people afraid of being called racists or bigots are afraid to use the terms that properly describe races. One of the earliest courses I took (at like the age of 14) was about races and ethnicities. I learned there were only 3 races in the world — Caucasian, Mongolian, and Negro — and all the other so-called races or ethnicities are simply subsets of those races.
If you're a Caucasian, there's nothing wrong with being called white. If you're a Negro, there's nothing wrong with being called black. Neither color (or lack thereof) is quite correct, but they're close approximations. White people are actually kind of pink and black people are actually some shade of brown. Colors of red, yellow and brown have all been used for the people of the Mongolian race and most of them aren't correct either.
Native American?
This one irritates me the most. I have a quarter or more of the blood of one or more of the native tribes. Of course the tribes are native Americans. So is anyone else who's living in America. "Native" refers to indigenous inhabitants of a place or country.
I have worked with many people of the native tribes over the course of my lifetime. Not once did one of them refer to themselves as "Native Americans". They always used tribal names such as "Navajo", "Apache", and "Pima".
"American Indian" was a popular term until political correctness took over. The term came about when early settlers saw the native tribes and thought they looked like the Indians (from India). Of course the tribes never recognized the term, just like most don't recognize the politically correct "Native American" now.
Afraid to Offend?
All of this political correctness stems from the fact that people, particularly politicians, are afraid to offend any particular race. Why does race even matter? I wish it didn't. I haven't paid much attention to race or color since I moved to Hawaii in 1974 (and that's a story I've already briefly written about).
I found it interesting when the media labeled Obama as the first black president. I didn't see a black man getting elected and definitely not an African-American. To me, he was simply an American and that's all I see him as now.
) so, to me (and a lot of other people here) the "black" thing is just the color of his skin. So basically a black man was elected. I'm not politically correct or uncorrect right now, I'm just telling that we don't care, so he's just a man with a black skin.
he is black so what? you can't judge some on color of his skin 
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