[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.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

My sister teaches at an almost all-black inner city private school that focuses on helping at risk kids succeed. She tells me that Africans she knows are absolutely appalled at poor American blacks and they deeply resent American blacks’ attempts to associate themselves with Africa. The Africans are appalled at American inner city black disrespect, criminality, failure to achieve, inability to speak properly, violence, lack of family structure...all the same things we find abhorrent.

[Cecily]

It is funny how many black people from former English or French colonies seem fine having 100% English or French names. Bob Marley and Thierry Henry seem(ed) content with their non-African names.