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Her father is Jewish and her mother is African-American


So we know one parent's religion and the other's ethnicity.

I wish people would stop confusing religions with ethnicities. Lisa Bonet, Sammy Davis, Jr., Yaphet Kotto, Jordan Farmar, and rabbis Capers Funnye and Alysa Stanton are all Jewish...and African-American.

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I was just saying the same thing. Lol

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It is seen as both

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Right. Jewish refers to an ethnicity and a religion. I've known an atheist Jew before, which seems like a contradiction but isn't.

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Not African-American.

BLACK American.

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Why not just say the word black? I see nothing wrong with that.

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Even better.

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It has been an evolution. From Nig**r to colored to negro to black to African-American. But the latter excluded blacks from other countries. So hence Black American

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I prefer, for myself, the name Israelite to the misnomers "African-American" and/or "Black" as Ethnic/National/Racial descriptives.


Our History: http://israelunite.org/videos/our-history-from-adam-to-today/

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