Talk:Hunters Point, San Francisco, California

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What about when people dumped toxic chemicals in hunters point and caused radiation and cancer to surrounding neighborhoods? I don't know too much about it but can someone write something about that? Also, Hunters Point is on the National Priorities List to be cleaned up. And how about some statistics about how residents in Hunters Point are twice as likely to die from breast cancer as compared to the rest of the bay area which is already the highest in the city? Or what about the residents' babies are 2.5 times more likely to die?

[edit] "Black" vs. "African-American"

I recently reverted the replacement of the term "African American" throughout the article with the term "Black". This edit was made by an anonymous IP user 24.209.46.175, and I felt that it was probably done by someone with malicious intent. Since then, the user has supplied the following argument:

i wasnt vandalising http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunters_Point%2C_San_Francisco%2C_California I just changed from "African-American" to Black, because not all Blacks come from Africa, and yet there is white Africans... What would you call a person from Jamaica, South India, or Central/South America with Black skin color?

With this in mind, I'm reverting my revert. I've always thought the term african american is ridiculous - I've even heard it applied to Lenny Henry, a british born black man of jamaican descent, which is plainly ridiculous. However, I've usually tried to stick to the consensus opinion, which in this case means I'd have to use the politically -correct (and factually sometimes incorrect) term "African American".

Glad to see that opinions may be changing on this one. -- (James McNally) (talkpage) 13:22, 16 June 2006 (UTC)