Black or African-American?

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Good point, iSm. I've been putting together the Song of the South episode of the MousePod, and to prepare, I've been reading many threads on various boards and listening to other podcasts (there were two SotS "Zip-a-dee-doo-pods"). The conversation about the controversy surrounding the movie is similar to this thread - a bunch of mostly well-meaning, mostly white folks talking about what black people might find offensive. I decided to include some first-hand perspectives from black people, and I realized that while that a great percentage of my work associates are black, I currently don't have any black friends. I'm not sure if it has to do with common interests - I do know that it feels odd...