I heard it again

[BillB]

This bugs me.
I've heard this type of thing a lot.
On tonight's news they were talking about a car with "four African-American males" in it that was seen doing something wrong- I don't remember what.
How do they know they were Americans? They could be visitors from Nigeria.

The stupidest I ever heard was on the old Nightline show.
A woman described the South African Negro population as the African-American South Africans.

[GRANDPA]

I heard someone on TV several years ago mention "African-Americans from all over the world". Only here in America are people hyphenated.

[LibraryLady]

IIRC, at the Olympics one year, the American announcers stumbled all over themselves as to what to call a black Olympian from France....tried to call her AA and realized that wasn't correct and yet were afraid to cal her a black person.

[BillB]

During the O.J. Simpson trial a forensic expert testified that the hair of an African-American was found at the crime scene.
You can look at a hair and determine race. How can you look at one and determine nationality?

Even trained people who know better that this, get caught up in it.