Dental School Student Expelled Because Not Black Enough For African American.
The use of the term "African American" became a popular "self" description, popularized in 70's and considered by many of the intellectual and elite American Descendants Of African slaves a term of pride. Now, once considered the key phrase for documenting the achievements and culture of Black Americans. Today it has opened the Pandora's Box on race issues and depending on the outcome of a federal lawsuit, African American could very well change the criteria for who is both African and uniquely American.
In 1964, while the Tonkin Gulf Resolution opened the gates to the Vietnam War, The Civil Rights act granted federal powers to fight discrimination, and a young Black minister from a prominent Atlanta family won the Nobel Peace Prize, millions of Black families migrating from rural farms to northern cities between 1955-1964 were being thrown under a bus. They were the last wave of domestic immigrants seeking new lives in the promise lands of urban jungles, without knowing their children were about to become chess pawns for the Black elite. As Claude Brown stated " they were not placed, but misplaced".
