Black people who were born in the United States are called African-American, but as some have argued, this is an erroneous term, because American-born Blacks are not Africans, we are Americans who have some African ancestry.
Some may say that they think the hyphenated description of Blacks is accurate, but the problem with it is that there are actual Africans, both Black and White, who have come to this country, and unlike the Blacks that were born here, these people are actually African-American.
For instance, the White actress, Charlize Theron, would fit the definition of an African-American since she was born in South Africa and later moved to the U.S. But Black Americans were not born in Africa, so the title African-American doesn't seem like a good fit for them.
Most people probably just associate Africa with Blacks only because there is a high population of melanated people there. But as I stated before, American Blacks are native to this country, and most of us have never even been to that great continent. But we just have some African ancestry in our DNA.
