I completely understand what she means. Society often labels people to pigeon hole them into some sort of statistic or percentage. She saying labels are old. it's 2014, so why do we need to be labeled African American? Or gay? Or Mexican-American? Or any other label that could placed on someone for their race, religious beliefs or sexual orientation. When you become a citizen of america you are american. Unless you just arrived from Africa, or are first or second generation African, you can't possibly be African American. Very few people who are "African American" still have African blood running through them so it's almost a hypocritical "label". So I embrace my ancestry. I will always be proud of the things my ancestors contributed and did to solidify a place in the United States but they are the real "African Americans", by 2014 we are just Americans.