Black Man X - Do you take pride in your last name? Serious discussion.

[Big Daddy]

I don't care about that type of stuff.
My identity is based on my personality, interests and actions.

 

[Naijan]

I`m 100% African but I feel y'all pain, what I find funny is when someone says I have an "odd" name, I`m like nah being Black with a European name is whats odd.

Same thing happens to me, but they say it's 'unique'. I'm like not around my circle it's not

 

[Pifferry]

It's just a name to me.
I can see why people would be bothered by the implications though.

 

[Big Daddy]

Nope I don't and never will.

Would you ever change it?

 

[Big Daddy]

I have an irish last name. Went thru the whole "we have our slave masters name" phase as a teen. Never took it as far as changing the name like some Black people have done. Thought about changing it like I'm sure some Black people have done. In the end...You repping yaself. America kind overlooks the fact that Blackfolks have slave master names and thats just the way it is. We all have the option of changing our names to whatever we want like Meta World Peace. Am I proud? Well my Grandmother introduced me to love and she took pride in our last name. I know where it comes from and I also know the history of the world, how conquerors would rename those they conquered. Entering adulthood and taking on the world, I knew I was dealing with a society that overlooks Blackfolks having slavemaster names...So mentally I just work around it and encourage my immediate circle to do the same. My circle has reprogrammed itself from society...Like for instance, we all picture Jesus as being a Black man with dreads. Reprogramming is necessary as u get older... I look at it like, my last name is just what the Matrix knows me as kinda like how the Matrix new NEO as Mr. Anderson.

I like.

 

[Starski]

Yes because i am very proud off what my family did consider what we came from. So i am proud to carry it in the sense. My family made something out of nothing and i cant to carry it. Changing it will somehow distant myself from it.

 

[Poitier]

Language and writing are African inventions

 

[John Mayer]

I'm changing my name Victor Hwang Jo-yoon

 

[Dirty_Jerz]

I looked up what my name means because words hold power imo

 

[Mr.Big Meat McGee]

I have a French last name... it's disgusting. Getting it changed when I leave my moms house.

 

[Big Daddy]

I`m 100% African but I feel y'all pain, what I find funny is when someone says I have an "odd" name, I`m like nah being Black with a European name is whats odd.

That's that Western programming To some of us, our current names are the "norm".

 

[Big Daddy]

Yes because i am very proud off what my family did consider what we came from. So i am proud to carry it in the sense. My family made something out of nothing and i cant to carry it. Changing it will somehow distant myself from it.

That's the 'con' I see in it.. if I had to list any. It's the whole losing "connection", "legacy", etc., that comes with it. But then the other side of me thinks about the fact that it's just a "brand" for our legacy. If my last name is Smith, my family's legacy's brand name is Smith, and that just doesn't hold a lot of weight with me when I think about it like that.

 

[kp404]

That's the 'con' I see in it.. if I had to list any. It's the whole losing "connection", "legacy", etc., that comes with it. But then the other side of me thinks about the fact that it's just a "brand" for our legacy. If my last name is Smith, my family's legacy's brand name is Smith, and that just doesn't hold a lot of weight with me when I think about it like that.

Real talk homie; I definitely want to change my name, but I don't know to what name yet, so I'm still looking

 

[hotbeezie]

I'm just gonna assume my last last is Scottish.


Because my last name is Scott

 

[Dirty Mcdrawz]

my third great grandfather and his brothers changed their last name after they were freed.