Yep.
I personally think the whole "African American" thing is a silly result of going overboard with political correctness. In general conversation I think it's lame, but here I'm just using it here to refer to a particular group of black people. I've met a lot of Africans and black people from other countries who are totally normal and nice, but my ghetto experience really turned me off of African Americans.

As a (blindingly) white person, I don't feel I have the right to comment on what term is "correct," but I don't know what's so damn offensive about calling black people black when it's normal to call white people white (though I suppose by the same token it's not cool to call an asian "yellow"). It just seems like anyone who would be offended by that is overly sensitive and needs to put their energy towards something more productive.

Anyway, I'm all for the "out-of-Africa" theory of tacking "African" in front of every ethnicity.
(Exempt OH WOW, VICODIN, Sat 3 Apr 2010, 7:46, Reply)