NFL pick Odafe Oweh says MY NAME IS MY NAME/ SAS apologizes for mocking names

[NaijaProdigy Redux]

shyt used to irritate me when people would mispronounce my name after I told them multiple times how to say it.

It’s not even that difficult so why the fukk are you inserting random letters that clearly don’t belong?

 

[CoryMack]

In New York, to show their level of disrespect people used to mispronounce the Minister's last name. Blatant, because they had no problem pronouncing Hanukkah, but would pronounce his last name as Farr-a-can.

They still do that today. It disgusts me when they do it in front of someone Black and aren’t corrected.

 

[Aceofspades404]

Just plain ole racism.

 

[get these nets]

How his middle name just so happen to be Jayson anyway?

Immigrant groups go through acculturation in whatever society they migrate to. To different degrees.
His last name is from his father, and his first name is from his family's culture(s). An English middle name is a small concession to that transition process.

People try to retain as much of their cultures as possible , but as Hyphen Americans we go through assimilation each generation we are here.

Now, that's my personal opinion.

A different approach to the answer is in the spoiler.

Spoiler: Patrice Lumumba

 

[Astroslik]

Spoiler: TLR-proof

Bu bu bu but why is a foreigner writing about Blacks and American history?

Even though he looks like Maxwell's older brother, Jean-Jacques Taylor is an African American journalist.

OP I like you as a poster because of your content but it seems like you have either a chip on your shoulder or a bone to pick with ADOS people

 

[get these nets]

OP I like you as a poster because of your content but it seems like you have either a chip on your shoulder or a bone to pick with ADOS people

Thanks.
But No. It's not with people of that or any particular background. The real tug of war on this site is not along ethnic lines. It's between those who are candid and open to the exchange of ideas ,and those who are disingenuous and just repeating cliches and stereotypes.

The second group adds nothing to a discussion board because they choose not to think for themselves.
I'm trolling them by cutting them off before they make the predictable derailment.

Some things are waterproof, Some things are bullet proof, some things are TLR proof.

 

[Gold]

@6:10 mark

This is how it should it done.

Offtopic: Alot of Yoruba people just tell Americans "The g is silent" in gb names because its just easier for Americans to think of it that way.

But the sound is very different when you hear it in the middle of a name (like in his last name)

 

[#1 pick]

A large segment of Americans are just plain stupid when it comes to pronouncing foreign names. Adding letters that ain't even there and shyt.

People be fukking the most simple shyt up too much be saying Polish names with no issue.

 

[#1 pick]

Immigrant groups go through acculturation in whatever society they migrate to. To different degrees.
His last name is from his father, and his first name is from his family's culture(s). An English middle name is a small concession to that transition process.

People try to retain as much of their cultures as possible , but as Hyphen Americans we go through assimilation each generation we are here.

Now, that's my personal opinion.

A different approach to the answer is in the spoiler.

Spoiler: Patrice Lumumba

Tariq said it's just childhood jokes

 

[videogamestashbox.com]

Shout out to football bruh Odafe ....good article btw also
I love how he tied so many threads of history together concerning names and the African experience in the U.S. over the past couple centuries.


EDIT:
One thing that would have been interesting to add was the wave of name changes that came out of African Americans in the 1960s-70s as a rejection of that prior trauma(similar to Odafe here but on a longer time scale).

 

[MischievousMonkey]

That's dope, he's coming into himself.

Btw OP, I think that the mentioning system is broken. I didn't receive any notification even though you mentioned me. I believe it caps at 5 or 10 mentions per post, after what the others don't get the message.

 

[Roid Jones]

His name is not even hard to pronounce, it's like Kamaru Usman's high school wrestling coach calling him 'Marty' because he couldn't say his name, the fukk is wrong with cacs

 

[DaddyFresh]

They still do that today. It disgusts me when they do it in front of someone Black and aren’t corrected.

Yeah they still do it to Kamala Harris. It’s intentional.

 

[Steel]

A lot of Igbos has very Americanized names as whole names they really be like Ashley Stacy Onyeji or Jason Micheal Eregbu.

Strong c00n vibes

 

[get these nets]

That's dope, he's coming into himself.

Btw OP, I think that the mentioning system is broken. I didn't receive any notification even though you mentioned me. I believe it caps at 5 or 10 mentions per post, after what the others don't get the message.

Thanks. I have different members grouped along interest, background, regional, and languages, and tag them with posts that might be of interest. Glad you made me aware of the glitch in the system.