{"id":967,"date":"2007-06-30T08:56:45","date_gmt":"2007-06-30T12:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/06\/30\/question-of-the-day\/"},"modified":"2007-06-30T08:56:45","modified_gmt":"2007-06-30T12:56:45","slug":"question-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/06\/30\/question-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Question of the day &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am watching qualifying for the French Grand Prix, and this question crossed my mind:<\/p>\n<p>If Lewis Hamilton was American, would we still refer to him as \u201cthe first black F1 driver to \u2026\u201d or would we refer to him as an African-American?<\/p>\n<p>I am not trying to be disrespectful, but it is an interesting point because recently I ran across this letter in SI:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You described Ottawa Senators goaltender Ray Emery as \u201cthe first African-American goaltender in 19 years to lead his team to the finals.\u201d [source:  SI June 25, 2007, p. 18]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The only problem is that Emery is Canadian.<\/p>\n<p>I am not trying to be insensitive, disrespectful, or anything else that may come to mind from someone reading this post that happens to be of African heritage.  I just wonder how many generations it takes to become American?  I was thinking the same question as the US took on Mexico last weekend in Chicago.  I can understand immigrants, regardless of citizenship, calling themselves African or Mexican (or whatever) Americans.  To a certain extent, I can understand their children claiming their parent\u2019s heritage, but at what point does it end?  When do we all become Americans?<\/p>\n<p>Of course I can never get it, because I am white, I am privileged, born into a hard-working, educated, upper middleclass family.  Then again, I still claim to be a Texan, even though I only lived there for a few months before my parents got a divorce.  OK, I am a hypocrite, but at least I am honest about it. <\/p>\n<p>I guess that is my political rant for the day.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am watching qualifying for the French Grand Prix, and this question crossed my mind: If Lewis Hamilton was American, would we still refer to him as \u201cthe first black F1 driver to \u2026\u201d or would we refer to him as an African-American? 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