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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm AA in my 40s grew up middle class, private schools, lived with both married parents in a single family house in NYC suburbs. I have a unique name that is south Asian. Some may say it's ghetto. I would say try not to judge me, but if you really must why not judge me by what I have named my children. That is something I actually had a say in. [/quote]

How is a south asian name ghetto, and why did your parents give you a south asian name if you're not south asian?[/quote]

I was named after a friend. I didn't know you could only name your children certain names from your own culture.  Since we are AA and were taken from our country, enslaved and stripped of our heritage what do you think they should have named me? [/quote]

Got em'[/quote]

What country were YOU, personally, kidnapped from?  By whom?  When?  Have you reported it to the police?  Who enslaved YOU?  What “heritage” were YOU “stripped” of?  Or are you describing something some long-dead person did to some other long-dead person?  And if the latter, how in the world is any living person responsible to YOU for anything?  Lots of long-dead people were abused by other long-dead people. Ask the Irish. Or the Chinese. Living in somebody else’s past is a sure way to never get anywhere in your own life.[/quote]

I believe the message she was trying to convey is that 1) her parents, who in all likelihood had no access to Ancestry.com at the time of her birth and did not know their family’s heritage with it being erased during slavery and all, didn’t want to just arbitrarily pick a random African culture to identity with when naming their daughter so they instead named her after a dear family friend.  2) I think she was saying that it is rather rude to insinuate that AA’s are not allowed to select names for their children outside of their racial heritage considering as previously mentioned AA’s heritage was comprised having been brought here and stripped of their identities and given new names by their slavemasters.  And 3) I think she was sarcastically suggesting that since it is part of white heritage to disregard AA cultures/identities and take it upon themselves to just rename/rebrand AA’s as they see fit, what do you think she should be named Mr/Mrs white property owner?[/quote]

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