Herman Cain is not an African American

Herman Cain doesn’t want to be called African American, which is fine by me. It’s fine by me because I don't think he is. I have never really liked the label. To me, an African American would be, for example, someone who was born in Monrovia and moved to this country during one of Liberia’s civil wars. I always thought the use of a term like blackamerican (all one word on purpose) was a more appropriate term for those who had not just come over from Africa. I think that if we are going to get all into this sort of terminology, we ought to differentiate people whose ancestors came to this country as slaves and those that didn’t. I’m not sure that we should get all into labels, but I’m also not sure how we can avoid it. If Herman Cain wants to be called an American, though, that is fine with me. I am sure, as unusual as that conviction is, that I can find no fault with Herman Cain on this one.