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human
Elon Musk is technically African American it's all a bit nonsense tbh. If you're here and live in Britain you're British.
gpt
He's South African, American. (Idk if he still has anything to do with Canada.) You use the country not continent.

African American is a specific term used to distinguish slaves, especially those born on American soil, as Americans practiced chattle slavery (where a slave's offspring is considered property and made to work as well.) 

Most decendants today feel confortable going by the term **Black.** many don't feel comfortable using the entire continent to claim ethnicity and feel its less accurate and a way to continue to separate black Americans from just being American. 

Many black people are decendants from the colonizing time period and were here before we fought for independence and before we called ourselves the United States. Slaves were in America before the Mayflower set sail.