3 questions about "AA" names...

[mbewane]

Ok brehs first of all no offense but I have three quick questions about those "African-American" names (I know that's a bad way of calling them, but just so we know what we're talking about)

1. Where do they originate from? I mean, how does someone think of "LaMarcus", "Javale", "Lebron", "DeAndre"...? Are they just totally made up or...I once read that some have roots in Swahili but that always sounded like some faux-afrocentric crap to me.

2. You noted that I brought names of NBA players, so coming from an outsider, are these kind of names really widespread among AA, or do I just have a skewed sample?

3. When did these names "blow up"? I remember that before it was all Micheal, Eddie, Nick, Tim, Denzel, Robert...sure there was Shaquille, Anfernee, Latrell, but they weren't that many... and then all of a sudden there's "Jrue" ()

Again no offense brehs, just trying to understand this stuff right here

 

[Lewis Black]

Ok brehs first of all no offense but I have three quick questions about those "African-American" names (I know that's a bad way of calling them, but just so we know what we're talking about)

1. Where do they originate from? I mean, how does someone think of "LaMarcus", "Javale", "Lebron", "DeAndre"...? Are they just totally made up or...I once read that some have roots in Swahili but that always sounded like some faux-afrocentric crap to me.

2. You noted that I brought names of NBA players, so coming from an outsider, are these kind of names really widespread among AA, or do I just have a skewed sample?

3. When did these names "blow up"? I remember that before it was all Micheal, Eddie, Nick, Tim, Denzel, Robert...sure there was Shaquille, Anfernee, Latrell, but they weren't that many... and then all of a sudden there's "Jrue" ()

Again no offense brehs, just trying to understand this stuff right here

You dont remember shyt you bytch ass nikka you just wanna ridicule african americans.

Get the fukk on outta here.

 

[mbewane]

You dont remember shyt you bytch ass nikka you just wanna ridicule african americans.

Get the fukk on outta here.

damn u mad breh, thanks for ur insight

 

[cleanface coney]

the shyt yall talk about on here sometimes is craaaazzzzyyy

 

[god shamgod]

AA names>>>>>>>afrikan names

Jermaine>>>>>>Mlebuwana adabisa olu mutumbo

 

[Illuminatos]

damn u mad breh, thanks for ur insight

He's a fukk nikka, ignore him.

 

[Chris.B]

I will give my kid the whitest name on the block....I don't want his resume to get tossed in the bushes before they get a chance to talk to him.

Go ahead and call me uncle tom but perception is fucking reality....

 

[KingHelga]

it is funny. first people made fun of african americans for not adopting whiter names like the asian immigrants who come to this country will in a heartbeat, but now i notice whites getting creative with the spelling and naming of their kids. ridicule then copy.

 

[Sugar]

it is funny. first people made fun of african americans for not adopting whiter names like the asian immigrants who come to this country will in a heartbeat, but now i notice whites getting creative with the spelling and naming of their kids. ridicule then copy.

I used to have class with this white snow flake named Daisah

She was the whitest girl in the world too, but she swore up and down she loved black people

 

[god shamgod]

If your name is steve,chris,michael,robert,william,joseph,tim,eddie,billy,eric,mark,rick or jason

You're no better than your name being demarrio

 

[semtex]

I will give my kid the whitest name on the block....I don't want his resume to get tossed in the bushes before they get a chance to talk to him.

Go ahead and call me uncle tom but perception is fucking reality....

yeah you give your daughter the name Boomquita you might as well make her middle name "DontHireMe"

 

[newworldafro]

I've said it before.....I'm not saying this is completely true for all "distinct AA" names...since a name like Denzel sorta defeats my point, since he's in his 50s....but I would say after the 1960s/Post-Jim Crow era......you have Black Americans...who had probably went from being labeled Coloreds to Negro to Afro - Americans to Black in about 25 year time span were equally trying to find themselves/create a culture anew...basically trying to define what a post-Civil Rights era meant...

IDENTITY.....thus in the 1970s it became whether to latch on to the White mass identity or create a fresh Afro/Black American identity..... African names, Muslims putting forth Arabic names, then regular "White American names" and then creating original names from all that....

.....hence the creative names that seemed to have started in the 1970s, growing tremendously in the 1980s, and basically overwhelmingly in the 1990s.........

I think it has sorta gotten out of hand......so I hope that the names that are given, allow these kids to be fiercely competitive and steadfast in the marketplace and create their own, cause there is still some stigma, though I think its decreasing somewhat...

 

[Wildin]

A piece of shyt by any other name is still a piece of shyt. It don't matter if you see it on the sidewalk and step over it or if someone puts it in a velvet puts a bow on it.

 

[mbewane]

AA names>>>>>>>afrikan names

Jermaine>>>>>>Mlebuwana adabisa olu mutumbo

Don't get me wrong breh, I'm really not here to mock some names because coming from a french-speaking african country (Central African Republic) we have some crazy names too...dudes picking up the calendar and naming their kids "Dimanche" ("Sunday" ), "Pâques" ("Easter" ), Bienvenu ("Welcome" ), "Fiacre" (an old-school word for..."horse-carriage ).

No really, I'm more interested on how these names come up and if it's maybe just me who, as an outisder, feel it's a "new phenomenon" while it's maybe always been there. And if they are "new", what may be the influences or if it's "just" creativity.

>>> Jermaine tho

 

[Mr. Somebody]

Ok brehs first of all no offense but I have three quick questions about those "African-American" names (I know that's a bad way of calling them, but just so we know what we're talking about)

1. Where do they originate from? I mean, how does someone think of "LaMarcus", "Javale", "Lebron", "DeAndre"...? Are they just totally made up or...I once read that some have roots in Swahili but that always sounded like some faux-afrocentric crap to me.

2. You noted that I brought names of NBA players, so coming from an outsider, are these kind of names really widespread among AA, or do I just have a skewed sample?

3. When did these names "blow up"? I remember that before it was all Micheal, Eddie, Nick, Tim, Denzel, Robert...sure there was Shaquille, Anfernee, Latrell, but they weren't that many... and then all of a sudden there's "Jrue" ()

Again no offense brehs, just trying to understand this stuff right here

Arent all names made up? People like to be unique. People like to name their chidlren what they want to name them. The sound of a name is meaningless. What you do with your name means more. Naming your child for the specific reason of helping them get a job, is sad. Theres nothing wrong with Eurocentric names but if you think about your child interviewing with an individual who will not want their services because of their name, perhaps you should rethink who it is you are molding your child to be.

, friend.