<p>Agree with Plainsman disagree with IBfootballer,
IMHO, I don’t like the definition for African-American. Not all blacks who reside in the US have ancestors who were slaves: I’m for one am one of them, my parents are from Cameroon West Africa. And IBfootballer, I don’t think the OP was 'exploiting 'the history of blacks in the US, he was asking a very reasonable question that anyone would have asked.</p>