[aruanan]

It seems logical to me after the forced separation from African traditions and culture and the forced assimilation to slave culture, there would be a movement to begin to exist on our own terms, names being an example of this.

If she really knew anything about African traditions and culture other than a romanticized notion of herself strutting around in leopard skins, daughter of a mighty Zulu warrior, she would be kissing U.S. soil, thanking God that through the means of slavery she and her descendants can be living here, where the chief problem of the "poor" is combating diabetes due to obesity, rather than in Africa where she would more likely than not be one of the dirt poor eking their lives out growing cassava and draining ponds to get fish to sell in the streets.

[Safetgiver]

If she really knew anything about African traditions and culture other than a romanticized notion of herself strutting around in leopard skins, daughter of a mighty Zulu warrior, she would be kissing U.S. soil,......Years ago I read a book by a black author who went someplace in Africa to live the true experience. The blacks wanted him to get an M60 to hunt elephants with, they dumped barrels of DDT in a river to get the fish when they bellied up, set whole plains on fire to get the charred corpses of animals, etc. The kicker came, however, when he saw wall to wall bodies of another tribe floating downstream because one tribe wanted the manioc they had stored. His revelations at the end were truly eye opening.