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.
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