# Is it blacks or African Americans?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 2, 2005, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-blacks-or-african-americans/333785 "2005-12-02T19:13:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2005, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-blacks-or-african-americans/333785/21 "2005-12-03T07:27:52Z")

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> [@Raguleader](#):
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> I heard about a kid a few years back who was suspended for insisting on competing for some African-American Student of the Year competition at his school. Basically, the student body would vote for who they thought was the best African-American student at the school, and the competing students could campaign with their reasons why they should be voted for (academics, extracurricular activities, that sort of thing). This fellow got in trouble because despite being African-American (both of his parents were from Africa, and he was born in the US after they immigrated), he was white :smack: . Apparantly caused something of a ruckus after most of the student body did indeed vote for him. :rolleyes:

> **[Student not black enough to win African American student award](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=236189)**
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> So I guess to qualified to win the African American student award it doesn’t matter if you are African American. This school is totally racist. http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u\_np=0&u\_pg=1640&u\_sid=981030

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