You made the mistake of actually caring about the opinions of people who are racist. Of course someone who is racist isn't going to have a clue about what they are talking about, that's pretty much the whole reason why they are racist in the first place.
Listening to what the media says is another mistake. They appeal to the widest audience possible and attempt to be controversial at any chance they get. If they don't cause a fuss, no one will listen to them.
Morgan Freeman hit the nail right on the head with what he was saying. If everyone just stopped caring about it, the problem would go away.
I don't understand why Americans feel the need to differentiate themselves at all anyway. "German Americans" "Irish Americans" "African Americans" You're all just Americans, the whole nation is made of immigrants. Unless you hold some kind of dual citizenship and actually lived in another country before immigrating to the USA, you're a born American.
