Take a moment to look at the tongue, and brain twisting circle jerk we're forced to maintain today. An African that moved from Africa to the United States, could be described as 'African-American'; see how it can get ridiculously confusing?

This isn't by mistake, at least by way of some of the 'founders' of the USA. I believe Patrick Henry, and others made mention of the word games. I know I've got 2 Black's Law Dictionaries; one is modern, and one is older, a lot of the definitions are the same, but some that I think count, have seriously been changed.

Imagine applying modern defined terms to the documents still in force that were created with a different meaning... Shift this over to modern politically correct speech, and well, there you go... A simple example is rap music's use of Latin word for black. When young black people use the word no problem, when a young different color person, white, or other, it's offensive. That's actually fine, but I note that it's usually people that truly embrace black culture, as in they identify with it, that bear the brunt of their own interests, or identity.