is there a reference source for these afro-am first names or do the disenfranchised ghetto folk pick them out of thin air.
somehow none of the black men and women that i have associated or soldiered with had whimsical first names. it seems that the phenomena is less than 3 decades old.
my surname is a slave name but my given is an old, common one with germanic roots.
a boy named sue indeed would be a preferable handle compared to some of these Ebonic ones.
Man, people wanna talk about "made up" names. Like yalls fuckin names wasnt "made up" too--they just got made up longer ago so that makes em legit? How you think people came up with names? You think "james" just existed? Hell no, people made them up. but that was a thousand somethin years ago so its aight I guess.
By the way tho, a whole damn lotta these "ghetto" names people talk shit on, like Shaniqua and shit like that, aint "made up' at all and are Arabic names going back hundreds+ years, dont hate on wat you dont know.
My sons name Malik and the uppity bitches who say "OHH, Ah, thats an INTERESTING name" when they ask his name do the same thing, just shows how little they know tho.
The thing that makes me laugh about it tho is how many of these rich white folks be namin their kids shit like Colton, Grayer, Bayley, Aimsley,Macaddison, oh and cant forget the new top 20somethin name for girls among white rich trendy mothers--Brooklyn/BrookLynn--and nobody says a damn thing about that tho. they all "cute" and "trendy" names, but black folks do it and its "haha, those dumb black teenage mothers just MAKE UP their kids names, lawl".
Anyways....
Cant wait for all the mothers/fathers with dope addicted kids to add this into their next "intervention" talk to their child--"you could get KILLED out there!" More fuel for their fires, fo sho....
some dumb fuckin dealers tho, no question about that. Bet the old heads in these kids neighborhoods just shakin their heads on the greedy ass no-thinkin behavior. Way to make the fuckin spot hot, yall. No dope dealer worth half a bag of dope does some rash-ass shit like that. Straight foolish. Just another story to add to the negative image people got of the hood and of the dope game, one in a million junkies catches this fate and the whole community is talkin to the kids in the anti-drug program about how you can get KILLED(!) buyin drugs.