In the same vein African is often used as a stand in for black, regardless of veracity. The two even collided in African American as a stand in for black United Statesian.
Impressively it seems even random people on the street in Egypt speaking English as a second/third language know better than to try to use Africanoid to draw a distinction.
That's because African = Black is an intentional Leftist manipulation to insert Pan Africanism into the lexicon. "American" is just a shortening of "United States of America", given that the original revolutionaries had no idea how expansive the revolution could be.
In the same vein African is often used as a stand in for black, regardless of veracity. The two even collided in African American as a stand in for black United Statesian.
Impressively it seems even random people on the street in Egypt speaking English as a second/third language know better than to try to use Africanoid to draw a distinction.
That's because African = Black is an intentional Leftist manipulation to insert Pan Africanism into the lexicon. "American" is just a shortening of "United States of America", given that the original revolutionaries had no idea how expansive the revolution could be.