Why are black people against black names?

[Gold]

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?

Bold happens everyday with every immigration group, moreso back then than now.

Except for me

 

[Shadow King]

Some black names are just old European names that white people stopped using and then became "our" names.

LeRoy, Demetrius, Tyrone, Jerome.

Now some names, people just go out of their way to be "different" like L'Quantreyvious or DeChambroniqua.

Then you got PAWGS that name their mixed kids "regular" names but spell them weird: Justyn, Tielerr, Dehvid, Danyuhl or some bullshyt like that.

 

[True Darkseid]

WHATS A BLACK NAME?

SOMETHING LIKE JERMAINE & JAMAL?

OR YOU TALKING ABOUT SOME shyt
LIKE DBRICKASHAW & LEQUANTEZ?

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Leave Mr. Furgeson alone

 

[seabreeze80]

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

 

[CHICAGO]

We can't have a discussion disapproving awful names because we're already five generations deep into ignorant naming.

Half the folks in this thread probably have a name they're embarrassed of or the origins are based on an item versus a statement.

I THINK YOURE OVERESTIMATING
THE IGNORANT SUBCULTURE
OF THE BLACK COMMUNITY.

90% OF ALL THE BLACKS
IVE EVER KNOWN
FROM ELEMENTARY TO THE WORK FORCE HAVE ALL HAD
REGULAR ASS NAMES OR BIBLICAL/ARAB BASED NAMES.

shyt MAY BE HIGHER
AMONGST THESE CURRENT KIDS
BUT I WOULDNT KNOW.

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[THE MACHINE]

I was driving to work in DC and saw a missing child photo on the bus stop ad board. The girls name was So’Fine Charles.

They found her.
UPDATE: FOUND! CRITICAL MISSING | So’Fine Charles, 12 — Congress Heights on the Rise

 

[Software]

You was implying that Nasir isn't a name for black people

Tariq is arab name but the name is famous because of the black man a moor who was famous that's why people have the name Tariq

Jamal and Jamel and all that shyt are arab names too, but you don't see chaldeans or any of those white arabs with those names

I was not implying it wasn't a name for black people. I said it has Arabic origins...
I never said Arabic people cannot be black...
I was saying it is a real name with a meaning...

 

[hashmander]

so a black name is any name that a black person gives their child?

 

[Nomad1]

Names like Marqevious and other goofy euro derivatives names are Black?

 

[Afro]

Like instead of Erica you get Airwrecka

Or a$$hole

(That's a real one brethren. Pronounced Ash-oh-lay)

Parents just want their kids to struggle

 

[RealCrownHeights]

Quavo's full name is Quavious Keyate Marshall

Future's real name is
Nayvadius DeMun Wilburn

I rock with both of their music heavy but let's be real here, niccas names sound like something off of Spartacus Season 3

And nobody is saying your name has to be Tom or Susy either to appease cacs

 

[Afro]

???

Some of our ancestors prior to the transatlantic slave trade had Muslim names because they were Muslim. They brought Islam with them to America when they were made slaves and continued incorporating Muslim names. The use of Muslim names goes beyond our 400 year history in this country.

Whaaat, you crazy.

Islam is Arabs only, they literately created the religion and it belongs to them alone

 

[Majestyx]

What's a "black" name. There's some Ghetto names like this girl named

La-sha
It's pronounced Ladasha

I'm like . Some people shouldn't be allowed to have kids.

 

[Asicz]

How Much Does Your Name Matter? (Ep. 122) - Freakonomics

 

[Mowgli]

Then don't raise your kids to get jobs from a white man. Teach them to create opportunities young. Invest in their entrepreneurial education, listen and support their business ideas, help them save and invest early. You can be a DeQuantay Riveris Jones with your own business. You don't have to sit in someone's cube smiling as they struggle to pronounce your name and that's if, like you said the resume isn't trashed.

You need capital to start a business.

Black people need jobs to finance capital.

It's a tough spot to be in.

But at the same time

you can't be naming your child Shi'thead