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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]

Me?  Not at all.  I know much of my ancestry back into the 16th century.  I can "lay claim" to cultural use of Norwegian, Welsh, Danish, and German names.  While I personally have never been to Wales, I can name my kid Rhys and say it's a family name.  Even though I don't speak German, I still have a couple of random German words that stuck around, passed down in my family.

Most AA people in the U.S. don't have that.  If they're very lucky, they can trace their heritage to a region of Africa but most likely they are left only with the names given to their 19th century ancestors by their white slave-owners.  There are many people who don't care about cultural heritage and ancestry but also many people who care tremendously (why else the fascination with "Mayflower families"?).  A few decades ago, many AA began a movement to recapture or reinvent their African heritage, including creation of AA naming traditions.  Saying that AA don't have a right to create naming traditions is obnoxious at best.

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