"Every time I come back from the Middle East, my American friends would say, 'What were you doing in the M.E.?'
VOA: standard.2010.05.20
If there's something that seems to me like it could cross the line, I will defer to our African-American writers and cast members and to my African-American friends.
While in college one of my good friends had a basic, American sounding name something like (name is changed to avoid embarrassing the real person) Charlie Palmer.