Honestly, I believe that it all depends on how you look at it. I have a Jamaican friend who insists it's racist to refer to blacks as African Americans because it denigrates her island heritage. Some other dark people from non-African countries probably feel similarly. But I do think the racism card is the reason that a day off on a national slavery rememberance day would never really fly in the United States. It would be very divisive. Some people would rather argue about a 200 year old mistake than spend an extra day with the people they love and care about. And by "some people", I'm not talking about whites or blacks or anybody else in particular. I'm talking about some people.
I had never heard of that! But yeah, that's the kind of thing I was thinking about as being a possible corrolary.
It was mentioned in a thread here currently, plus I've just always been curious.
