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This is regarding Salim Muwakkil’s “Afro-Colombians suffer the most in the never-ending drug war” (Commentary, Sept. 30). Now there are Afro-Colombians? What’s next, Afro-Africans?

As a person born and bred in Africa and now an American citizen, I can assure you that, although I am a genuine African-American, I am an American now. No one in Colombia would call himself an Afro-Colombian.