Kevin Wayne Williams wrote:

> The New York Times style guide has promoted "Black" and "White" to
> proper nouns. I think of myself as "white," and hate it when someone
> refers to me as "a White." I know black people that feel the same way
> about "Black."  What I really enjoyed was an article in the paper the
> other day about how some blacks think that people from Africa that
> emigrate to the US should't be called African-American, because they are
> from Africa. Or something. I was laughing too hard to follow the logic.

Couple of my friends in Nagoya who work at a bar called Mowtown 
hated being called African American as they did not consider 
themselves Africa at all.  They got quite aggitated when younger 
Americans called them that.