African-American vs White or European American vs Black

We often hear in the same sentence blacks being labeled as "African-Americans" whiles whites are just called "whites". It seems that very few people are noticing or even caring about the inconsistency and even hypocrisy of such usage of terms to label and describe people.

Many of us expect the media to be more consistent and balanced when it comes to not just reporting news but to labeling and describing people and events. But the media is used as a tool by many to promote and influence ideas. In some cases, the media can be used to make people to not think about issues through the use of distractions in the form of entertainment.

Here's some food for thought:

Not all Africans are black.

Not all blacks in American are American citizens.

A white South African who became an American citizen is technically an "African American", but it is not very "politically correct" for a white person to call him or herself an "African-American".

Many, if not most blacks in America are not purely African.

However, many, if not most whites in American are purely European.

So technically speaking, a white person in America is more European than a black person in America is African.

Therefore, the term used to describe all black Americans as "African Americans" is a misnomer.

Even the President of the United States is not immune from inaccurate descriptions of who he is by a media that claims to be "politically correct". It is clear that whatever "politics" many in the media are using makes them biased, inconsistent and inaccurate. President Obama is almost never described by the media as the first "African/European-American" although he is half white. Why is that?

Extremists and bigots of opposing sides often agree with each other in the same issues but for different reasons. Case in point the belief that "one drop of black blood makes one black". Anti-black racists would see "black blood" as something that "taints" the genetic pool of a person while a black nationalist views "black blood" as something genetically superior and/or dominant over "non-black blood".

A person recently mentioned to me that a member of the KKK could care less if one is not fully black; a person might be 50 percent black but to a racist he is 100 percent "nigger". He tried to justify the use of calling any biracial person of black origin as "African-American" on the basis of "how society views them". Imagine if we took the same logic and asked the person if society viewed him as an idiot, would he call himself an idiot? Who cares if society views you in a way that is not in accordance to reality?

Political correctness should be based on correctness not politics...