I don´t like being called African-American

I just don´t. I am so far removed from Africa and it´s culture, languages, religion and heritage. It´s more and more evident as I meet and get to know more and more Africans. I remember someone tried to explain to me that African American respresents our past and our present. It was so much more descriptive than Black. Colored was a respresentation to our many shades but I think the Latinos got tired of being included in this misfortuned group by the Whites. Negro is more like it. That comes from the Latin word for black or dark but it carries a feeling of the transgressions in the past and way to close to that other N word.

So what do we call ourselves if i am shooting down any mane present or from the past...

I just want to be called an American.