Political Correctness, Run Amok

I have a New York Yankee's day calendar on my desk at work. Today (my first day actually back in the office after vacation), I tore off and read the sheets for the days I missed. Here is the fun Yankee fact for August 2nd.

Throughout the 1999 regular season and postseason, the Yankees wore an African-American number 5 on their left sleeve in memory of Yankees great Joe DiMaggio. For the final month of the regular season and throughout the postseason, the also wore a African-American armband in memory of New York's former pitching great "Catfish" Hunter.

This didn't really make any sense to me until I realized that I needed to substitute the word "black" for the words "African-American"....