Just different coloured yankees…

Gabbahead started on [interesting rant](http://www.gabbahead.com/index.php?title=ldelgafricanl_delg_americans&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1) before he got distracted.

As an overview, he’s making the point that “African American” is a hell of a lot more American than African. Now here I must admit, that that is the one thing of Black Americans that *really* get on my groat.

Just because you are black, does not make you an African. Now we can go into the whole [Nature vs. Nurture](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_versus_nurture) debate, but suffice to say that being African has a lot more to do with environment than with delusional self perception.

I will not have any damned one telling me that *I* am not African, I really don’t care whether they are dark Yanks or whether they’re Nguni. I am a *hell* of a lot more “African” than Oprah Winfrey — who claims to be (yeah right) of Zulu blood — could ever hope to be.

And don’t try and use the whole “Blacks were here first” argument, either. The only people with *real* ancestral rights in most of Southern Africa are the [KhoiKhoi](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khoi) and the [Shona](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shona_people). *Everybody* else are invaders of some sort. Yes, especially including the Zulu and Xhosa people.

What it boils down to is not where you are *from*, but where you *are*.