[MamaDearest]

Giving kids wierd names, is a way to ensure they can never leave “the community” and enter the white middle class.

African-American: Putting Africa ahead of America - who else puts a foreign country ahead of America? Choosing African names over American names is a given considering that preference. Kneelers and those who name their babies to show African identify do after all identify as African-Americans, with America as secondary identity. Assimilation (or lack of it) into American society is, by their own doing, their preferential decision.

[wmileo]

Those names like Shlondra, LaDavid, Keshawn and Demarcus are not African. I have met and worked with real Africans from Africa as a professional Engineer in the field of Telecommunication for almost five decades. The men and women from Africa who were my colleges during that time spoke no ebonics but English with a slight accent and vocabulary which far exceeds that of most Americans in general and so called African Americans in particular.They had as much in common with American born Blacks as Israelis have with ISIS, Hezbollah and Ha-mas.

A sad commentary on the quality of both primary and secondary education in this country in the past 50 years since I graduated college.

[wmileo]

Those names like Shlondra, LaDavid, Keshawn and Demarcus are not African. I have met and worked with real Africans from Africa as a professional Engineer in the field of Telecommunication for almost five decades. The men and women from Africa who were my colleges during that time spoke no ebonics but English with a slight accent and vocabulary which far exceeds that of most Americans in general and so called African Americans in particular.They had as much in common with American born Blacks as Israelis have with ISIS, Hezbollah and Ha-mas.

A sad commentary on the quality of both primary and secondary education in this country in the past 50 years since I graduated college.