Would you prefer Negro? I'm sorry if it offends you, but I'm not sure what else I'm allowed to call them these days. Seems that someone's bound to get offended no matter what you say. I refuse to call them "Afferkin-Amaiakins" because that's just absurd. One cannot be both an African and an American, as President T. Roosevelt pointed out, any more than you can be a German-American or Irish-American. You're either American or you're not.