Why can't we call people black but can call people white?

You can't call a black person black?

My girlfriend prefers to be called black, so I call her black.

I call black people black and white people white all the time. I hear it more than African American(. Which really doesn't make any sense because not all black people are " African American".) Where the hell do you live?!

People call me black and I call myself black. I don't know where you lived and who you've talked to, but most people of African descent in America prefer to be called "black." It's on the census and on most forms that people fill out. I've never heard any black person complaining about it either.

In my opinion it really depends on the person. I prefer to be called black. Some prefer to be called african american. I prefer to be called black because I wasnt born or raised in africa. Some people prefer to be called african american because they feel that their ancestors came from africa so they consider themselves african american.

When referring to race I say black and white. No one seems to have a problem with it. Most of the black people I know use the term black when referring to themselves too, unless they are Haitian or Jamaican.

What do "we" call them? You can say "Black" in the US to refer to a Black person. ("African-American", in fact, in somewhat stilted, and overly PC people use it to refer to a race rather than an ethnicity, so you get these bizarre statements like "he was white, and she was African-American" as opposed to "he was White and she was Black" or "he was Irish-American and she was "African-American".)

Silly....IS ACCEPTABLE in The UK to say BLACK...NOT COLOURED these days....African Americans...BLACK BRITISH....Have YOU been away a LONG TIME?

You can. Nothing politically incorrect about that.

Over-sensitivity and political correctness.