Please Don’t Call Me ‘African-American’

I’m “black” — and it still sounds beautiful to me.

Photo: flickr

I did something this morning that I never do in text communication. I corrected someone’s spelling.

It wasn’t my best moment, but in my defense, when you’re wrong, you’re wrong. As I pondered whether it was really necessary to point out that there is no “O” in “lethargic,” I thought back…