Why don't african americans use traditional african names?
Why don't african americans use traditional african names?
Robert Howard
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Julian Phillips
because they live in an english (?) speaking country, and have english surnames
Justin Robinson
They try, and the results are rather laughable
James Thomas
Because M'Gwani, Omaalele and Bobani-Banga doesn't sound as cool as Kanye and Tyrone
Austin Myers
the fake names they come up with sound like pokemon
Easton Roberts
They are turbo-Protestcucks.
Cooper Hughes
Because moreso than whites, we are true Americans. We can't say I'm 1/10 Nigerian 3/4 Sudanese, 6/87 Tunisian. We don't even know what African countries we come from. Plus, whites drove all africaness from us, forced us to speak english and kept no record of where each individual was from. We have no "Old Country". Were just American, thats it. We made our own identity apart from some mythical motherland, thats all we have such as it is and thats all we are.
When freed, slaves took the masters surname, we don't even have our own family names. Not complaining, shit is how shit is, just explaining
Jackson Nguyen
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Camden Scott
No we don't. Or rather, very few do (I know a black guy named Kwame)
Rather, those ridiculous names we get are the result of French rule. Leroy (le Roi) and shit like it were the names the French masters gave us, and modern blacks try to emulate the exotic French sounds in an ignorant and Anglicized way, so you get dhit like "Laquan" and "Dyesha" and LaDavid
Aiden Green
because they’re not really African
William Cox
>We don't even know what African countries we come from.
I can help you with that
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Luke Johnson
ashanti = african
lakeisha = african + french
shaquille = african francofied
etc
Justin Johnson
Slaves from many areas were captured by West Africans and sold to honkeys. That doesn't tell you where you specifically came from, just their point of departure
Owen Howard
All of it was from west Africa obviously. Nevermind that other regions are separated by thousands of miles of impossible terrain. There is no reason to travel at all when the slavers can kidnap people half a days march from the coast.
David Smith
Leroy and Laquan are cool sounding names
Brody Ramirez
1. Africa is a continent with several ethnicities and languages and cultures
2. They don't know where their ancestors came from
3. They're all mixed Africans
4. Their slave masters assigned them names
Cameron Garcia
>he's never heard of Timbuktu Johnson
Jason Thompson
>Took masters surnames
>Michael Jackson
We swedes truly dominate music
Grayson Johnson
a lot of them use a "qua" sound and i like it
Cameron Perry
i knew a guy named quatlander
Ayden Hill
Why do low class spaniards and latinos use english names?
Cameron Johnson
Seems to be the thing everywhere. White trash families give their children anglo names
Liam Lewis
I guess they get their children names ideas from american movie characters
Xavier Martin
True. But thats a very wide and general area
Nathaniel Turner
I've noticed this. I work at a place in so cal where I have to sign people in and every so often I'll see some chunty bastard with a name like Harold but his last name will be Orozco or DeAnda
Samuel Morgan
Because of slavery
They do have their own names, though
Bentley Howard
I think some African names don't sound so out of place with African American names. Tinashe comes to mind.
Ethan Ortiz
They do. That's why we think they're retarded.
Ian Davis
>Trashone
Jordan Cox
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well.
Dominic Brown
>laquan
Hahaha oh no no no
>LaDavid
Wtf who would come up with that?
>Dyesha
Doesn't even sounds french
Isaac Bell
Exactly. I was trying to figure what french word sounds like dyesha. There isn’t one
Chase Jones
creole?