The Voice of the People
New York Daily News
220 East 42nd Street
New York, NY 10017
December 7, 1992
Dear Editor:
Voicer Nick Arroyo (December 5, 1991) believes blacks from the Caribbean islands, who now live in Crown Heights [Brooklyn], should not be called African-Americans, but Caribbean-Americans. What he forgets is that their ancestral home is Africa, too. They should be called instead, however unwieldy on the tongue, Afro-Caribbean-Americans. This would remind people of this group's triple heritage.
Sincerely yours,
Charles Michael Smith
This letter was published in the New York Daily News on December 26, 1992.
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
A Triple Heritage
Labels:
Africa,
African Americans,
Afro-Caribbeans,
Brooklyn,
Caribbean,
Ethnicity,
West Indians
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