I NEVER heard a black person I encountered on the streets refer to themselves, or any other black person as African American. Giving descriptions of witnesses/suspects/whomever ... not once.
White people, maybe 50% of the time they would describe someone as AA.
Whenever I used the term, nobody but nobody ever took offense or even acted like they were.
"Unit 504 I'm out with one black male, Maple and Walnut, citizen contact." - Never got one complaint from this or any other use of the term.
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