You can't get away with playing the ignorant card, min. My old man does that. I'm not sure if he's serious or trying to wind me up.
Does no one have common sense any more? If you say someone is black or African-American that's not automatically racist. Obviously. A lot depends on the context. John Terry isn't a racist because he said Anton Ferdinand was black but because he called him a fucking black cunt which, of course, absolutely is racist even if it could have been a stronger word than black.
And Afro Americans aren't named after the hairstyle. Not sure if you're being serious there. And it's less a hairstyle then just the characteristics of their hair? I'm starting to think GD was being sarcastic!