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.