Why are black people against black names?

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pancocojams: The REAL Sources Of The Female Name "Keisha"

Thanks for posting. I didn't realize this. Keziah was popular and in use in the 1700/1800s by both black people and white people alike. It makes sense that Keisha would come from Keziah which was biblical.

 

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Nigerians/Ghanaian pull the same thing when they name their kid Success or some crazy shyt like Blessings Prosper Adewale.

South Africans do it too. I remember watching a movie some years back about a South African girl named 'Yesterday'.

 

[shopthatwrecks]

i get into it constantly when a black person turns their nose up at black person with a black name or be like “wow why did their mom name them that”.

its weird to me because every other race’s culture can be displayed through their name. but black people cant have that or its looked down upon as being ghetto.

never heard of mexicans saying they have to name their child Tom so they wont have to worry about getting a job. i know we get profiled for our names in interviews but we have to put a stop to that influencing how we want to exist in this world imo. what are yall thoughts?

 

[EARFQUAKE]

I just wish the name "Neveah" would leave this existence forever. The name is nowhere near prolific or unique.

I actually like this name

 

[MajesticLion]

Frederick Douglas
Harriet Tubman
William Edward Burghardt Dubois
Martin Delaney
Absolom Jones

^^^Those are black names.

Right on cue.

 

[chkmeout]

We are the only people penalized for naming our kids. I don't see anything wrong with "Ghetto names". Why we can't be different and create names that we want without the negative connotation behind it? I think most of us is just brainwashed into thinking anything we do is wrong

Bruh stop it, shyt is all around stupid

 

[Texas2step]

Bruh stop it, shyt is all around stupid

White people look for any reason to discriminate against us and nikkas in here cosigning this bullshyt and making it acceptable SMH

 

[Renegade47]

White people look for any reason to discriminate against us and nikkas in here cosigning this bullshyt and making it acceptable SMH

 

[The D-List Vet]

I thought you were talking about "African names" not the shyt that we made up to sound French

 

[Ake1725]

There are Indigenous names that are looked down upon by other Latinos though - there are far more likely to be whitewashed Latinos here in the U.S. who ignore names like Maatiaak or Itzamatul - or seem them as names of the poor too.

Most groups that have assimilated into white hegemony have adopted traditionally Anglo names.

Xotchil

 

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Are what you refer to as black names really black American names or is this a class thing?

If i had a daughter i would name her Keisha or Porsha i like those names. I also like the names Vanessa and Emily

for a boy i like the names Antonio, Lorenzo or Renzo (sounds cool), Cam'ron , Tyreek, Anfernee

You made me remember, years ago there were a series of tongue-in-cheek handbooks that came out that took a satirical look at different demographic lifestyles. You had the "Official Preppy Handbook" which was the first and hugely popular. Then they came out with all sorts of books for different groups; Yuppies, Bohemians (Bohos), Jews, etc.

They came out with equivalent black handbooks. The "Official Buppie Handbook" and the "BAP Handbook". I grew up with one of the authors of the BAP Handbook, Ginger Wilson, her father owned an accounting firm and one of the first black graduates of Kellogg Business School at Northwestern University and her uncle was the first black CPA in Illinois and the 2nd black CPA in the country.

Buppie being Black Urban Professionals
BAP being Black American Prince/Princess

There is a distinction between the two. BAPs can be Buppies but Buppies are not BAPs.

BAPs is essentially another name for the elite Jack and Jill of America Set.

Your mention of the name "Porsha" reminded me about this book because the book calls out the name and I specifically remember it because it was popular around the time when I was dating a "Portia". She was half Nigerian/half AA. When the book came out, my aunts, who were best friends with Ginger and had copies of the book, would joke with me that my girl had just made the cut. That she had the only acceptable spelling of "Portia" spelled with a "tia" and not the versions they mocked which were spelled like the car Porshe/Porsha.

I just remembered they had a naming section in the book (which talks about Portia/Porshe). Here is a snippet.

How people name their kids in the black community just amounts to tribal differences. With sometimes one group not wanting to acknowledge the other tribe and vice versa. I admit I'm guilty of it sometimes.

 

[Flywin Lannister]

I think a lot of Black parents is just trying to stunt honestly

“what’s the most elaborate, complex and expensive sounding ass name I can come up with” type shyt.

By our nature we love to stunt (as a result of being treated like shyt by cacs and to show we different/better..) and especially American brehs and brehettes have this need. It’s all about stunting on other nikkaz.

I simply do not get why any parent would give any child a name that screams “momma still hits the club”?

“Jemarquavius”

 

[Voice of Reason]

WHATS A BLACK NAME?

SOMETHING LIKE JERMAINE & JAMAL?

OR YOU TALKING ABOUT SOME shyt
LIKE DBRICKASHAW & LEQUANTEZ?

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Why is one worse than the other c00n?

 

[Voice of Reason]

Creative black names were born out of a sense of individuality during slavery when black people had very few freedoms and were forced to take the last names of their "masters"

 

[Voice of Reason]

It's goes back to the history of language and words.

The meaning behind letters and accents.

This stuff is no longer taught.

When people are no longer educated on the use of the meaning behind the language they are using. Then you will end up with what we have today.

All of this is a results of the dumb down and lack of knowledge of today's society.

Especially, in the ignorant subculture of the Black community. Where the education and knowledge of self is at an all-time low.

Thus goes back to slavery not anything to do with modern times. Michael Eric Dyson had a great explanation of it in one of his books.