While there are genuine African-Americans who have emigrated here, some legally, some not, most here are simply Americans who are also black.

The term African-Americans is in itself disingenuous and divisive and intended to simply pare off all blacks within America as if the owe some strange homage to the country of their birth. Most blacks in America were born here and hence simply Americans, making the concept of African-Americans fallacious in nature as in truth they are just Americans who are also black.

The terms Asian-Americans, Hispanic-Americans, African-Americans, Native-Americans and even Anglo/European/White-Americans are all used to subdivide Americans, typically for a political purpose.

In truth America is simply a melting pot of races and cultures and anyone who is born here is an American with no need for a prefix/qualifier attached to their race or cultural background to make them such