Ya have any desire to change your last name (Slave name)

[BigMan]

I know my last name came from Italy. Its a rare name. Knowing the history of my parents island and seeing that my DNA results came back 99%african, I doubt it was from a slave master because Caucasian people weren't that much present throughout their timeline. I was able to trace it back to the late 1800s, which would be about the time Italians migrated out of Italy and went looking for work. I was thinking about changing it but I left some hope out that he could of been a Moor.



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i've seen this before. i like Rock City theey dope and write a lot of songs for your favorite artists

VI Creole/dialect is interesting and i wonder if it will survive

 

[Clayton Endicott]

My name was already changed by my great grandfather . He added an "H" in the original name. Now if someone has that last name its 1000% fam bam.

In fact, my great grandfathers brother did the same, but with a different twist. So at family reunions we got the family name spelled three different ways.


Oh the Fuccery.

Same here. Without the S at the end of my last name, it would be a well known one.When I see someone with the same last name, I just KNOW they're kin cuz nobody else rocks that shyt. There's a player in the NFL with the same last name and even my says we gotta be kin.

What's crazy is that everyone I've seen with my last name is a breh or brehette, despite the fact that it's based off of a common white surname.

 

[Yagirlcheatinonus]

I used to have that desire but it really wouldn't change shyt

 

[kayslay]

English

 

[Momentum]

Nah, my name is actually one of the names slaves choose for themselves when they got free. Do research on your name before just thinking it came from oppressors, your ancestors may have already made the switch for you.

 

[Red Shield]

Individual and collective wealth are not the same.

no shyt

 

[R.O. Double]

My last name only been around since the mid 50s. Before my grandfather passed away, he told me about how him and his brother was basically gangsters and did a lot of dirt in Houston, TX. shyt hit the fan and they had to go on the run, but the problem was that his brother wanted to go to NY, while my grandfather wanted to go to California. He said they both flipped a coin, heads California, tails NY. In that coin flip they both got what they wanted and went on their separate ways while planning to reestablish contact once each got to their destination.

My grandfather changed his name, moved to LA and never seen or heard from his brother again.

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

He is Jamaican so Benin would be more accurate.

A lot of Jamaicans were Ashanti. Cuffee or Coffee was a common name in Jamaica during the 1700s and early 19th century.

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

Some tips for black people in the diaspora if they want to change their names. The following places were predominately populated by slaves from these areas:
Jamaica - Ashanti
Puerto Rico - Wolof
Cuba - Mandinka, Ibibio, Kongo/Angola, Yoruba, Igbo, Fon
Hispaniola - Fon, Igbo, Mandinka, Kongo/Angola, Wolof, Yoruba
Virginia - Igbo
Carolinas - Angola/Kongo
Louisiana - Yoruba, Mandinka, Fon, Bamun, Igbo
Colombia - Igbo
Ecuador - Fon
Suriname - Ashanti, Angola/Kongo, Fon
Brazil - Angola/Kongo, Yoruba, Hausa-Fulani, Fon, Mozambique/Gaza people
Paraguay - Angola/Kongo
Peru - Angola/Kongo
Argentina & Uruguay - Angola/Kongo

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

It's a simplification. It's a tiny bit reductionist but that's what records have showed us thus far.

 

[womanareliars]

nikkas can barely write a proper sentence or speak coherently but will run through a gallon of Hennessey and ponder whether or not they should change their last name...while the rest of the world gives no fukks what their last name is.

 

[DMGAINGREEN]

nikkas can barely write a proper sentence or speak coherently but will run through a gallon of Hennessey and ponder whether or not they should change their last name...while the rest of the world gives no fukks what their last name is.

I'm doing it for personal satisfaction , but it seems like your primary problem is how white people perceive it

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

nikkas can barely write a proper sentence or speak coherently but will run through a gallon of Hennessey and ponder whether or not they should change their last name...while the rest of the world gives no fukks what their last name is.

What an awful thing to say.

If you've noticed, cultural dispossession has similar affects upon people who already suffer from material dispossession. Look at colonized people around the world. Maoris. Indigenous Australians. Khoi San.Their lack of morale is rooted in their widespread destruction in their self-esteem. A name is much more than a name. It is a history. It is a past which has been robbed from black people in America. Part of a process of regaining dignity requires black people to feel proud of their roots. The fact that people in this thread feel alienation towards their family names is evidence enough of that.

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

Nah, my name is actually one of the names slaves choose for themselves when they got free. Do research on your name before just thinking it came from oppressors, your ancestors may have already made the switch for you.

Freeman?

 

[Crayola Coyote]

Keep in contact with the descendants that enslaved your family breh

If that was me in that encounter I would have been like ..........

Boooooyyyy! I would tell these Cacs they owe me all the cash they made from 1600-2015 not even playing. That's a case.