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Mezmerized wrote:

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I can see why everyone is pissed off, perhaps a more legitimate question should/would be whether us young Africans(Continental and Diaspora)will not follow in our parents' footstep and be done with European names once and for all.

This issue should be FIRST rectafied in the Continental Africans' community....because as Chi said, we have NO excuse orbusinesscalling oursleves with European names.However, for the Diaspora Africans, their African names were TAKEN away from them....so nocking them off whilsts we the people who's names were never forcibly taken are still parading ourselves in our so called "Christian, Muslim" names....soon enough there is gone be black people walking around with Asian names because they are Biddhists...

YankeeJamaRican, sis it DOES matter what one calls themselves in OUR predicament. It doesn't make sense to say that a Susan can be more Afrocentric than a Makosi(i find the use of Makosi here a little well out of line because of what that woman did, if its not your intentions, i apologise)

I don't see any other race on earth not caring much what they call their childrens so long as their children know themselves. Names connect a people, it connect one to not just their history, but it does bring a sense of belonging thats important. As i said before, i am not in anyway agreeing with the tone of this thread, but it still does not mean that in our moment of anger(which i completely understand because i did not like the thread from the begining, thats why i kept away from it to start off with) we should go all out and just sayd sod it, i doens't matter what we are called.

If names was not that important, Europeans and Arabs wouldn't have been so quick to forcibly take it away from us the moment we came into contact with them. It has power....thats why it was one of the first thing the oppressors took away, it disconnected us from our land and finally as a people.....although thank God they have not succeeded as they thought they would.

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