Carol Lin, a CNN talking (air)head (you will see why in a moment), was reporting on the Riots in France.  She Reported:

LIN: Hard to say because it's been 11 days since two African- American teenagers were killed, electrocuted during a police chase, which prompted all of this.

Now I have heard they were muslims, and I have heard they were from Africa.  They may have even been black (I have not heard if they were black or brown), but this talking airhead is so conditioned to calling blacks "African-Americans" that she cant even see the stupidity of her statement!

They may be anyone one of many things, but American they are not!

When words lose their meaning, stupid mistakes like this are bound to happen!  And the REALLY stupid part of that episode?  Her co-anchor airhead did not catch it!

So much for intelligence in reporting news.