Opinions: Any Black Who Still Bears European Names Is Still A Slave To White People
October 03, 2020 1045
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With every new day, there is an increasing number of Black people (both Africans, and African Diaspora), who want to know more bout their history and heritage, and who express their anger and distaste about the wickedness of the Caucasian world on Black people.
There are more and more
awakened Black people who want nothing to do with European ideologies, religion
and thoughts.
But one thing we have realized is that no
matter how much many Black people speak against slavery and its effects today
in Africa, America, and Europe, on Black people, they still maintain and use the
names of their oppressors. It is safe to say that about 70% of Black people in
America still go by European names, while about 60% of Africans in the mother
continent, still use the names of their colonizers and oppressors.
During slavery, Africans who were taken to America and Europe were forced to take the names of their white masters. After many years, many of the enslaved Africans forgot their roots and names and stayed with the names of their oppressors.
They got to hand down their “slave
names” to their children, and their children did the same. And today, in
America, Europe, and all over the world, you will find millions of Black people
going by purely European names, when actually they are Africans.
It is only a handful of our brethren who have taken it upon themselves to do research and find out their roots in Africa and take a name from their ethnic nationality. Many African-Americans do not care to find out their origins.
Many do
not care to get an African name, but still, they complain about slavery, white
brutality, and segregation. But the truth remains that even though you fight
against racism and modern slavery, fundamentally, you are still a slave. You
are still a slave until you CHANGE that name and get an African name. And we are
not just talking about a first name – we are talking about a complete African
identity.
During colonization, the Europeans
infiltrated Africa with their Christian missionaries, who preached about Jesus
being the way, and how our ways were evil and demonic. They somehow were able
to convince our people that European names were better than African names. And
soon we had shallow Africans take up the European names and immediately our
identity as Africans started to die. After almost a century that the
Europeans have left, we have Africans who have even gone ahead to drop their African surnames and taken up Europeans first names and surnames.
What stupidity?
How can you as an African strip yourself of your heritage, identity, and name and take up that of a European, just the way it was forced down on our brethren who were taken into slavery?
Are you a slave or a free man? Answer me this, dear African.
What is more annoying in Africa, especially in West Africa, is that African Christians drop their ancestral surnames on the basis that the names are evil, demonic, and cursed. They drop them and then pick up a European name, which often are names of so-called Christian Saints.
So, after long
exposure to brainwashing in Christianity, you will find an African going by the name, Esther Mathew, or Simon Jude. Now what kind of stupidity would you call that?
Even if you somehow are convinced that your ancestral name is cursed, and portend evil, can’t you choose another “holy name” from your ethnic nationality and language and use? Why would you delete your identity totally? That is not right.
When you go to Europe, you don’t see them
answering African names. You don’t see white people answering Chukwuka Okafor,
Kwame Mensa, Busola Tosin, Haruna Idris, etc. You will only see them answering
their Scott Davidson, Helen Johnson, etc. This is because they are Europeans,
and their names are their identities.
The same thing with the Chinese, Indians,
Arabs and many other races. They stick to their names and identities, no matter
their interaction with Europeans for hundreds and thousands of years. They do
not drop their identity for once. Only the Black man does that.
The Exception of Marriage
The only time when taking a European (white
person’s) surname should be normal is when an African woman is getting married
to a European. By default, after marriage, you can take his surname but still
maintain your African first name.
Conclusion
Africans have no reason to answer the names
of their enslavers and oppressors. Many of us might want to argue and say the
world is a global village now, but that is just plain stupidity and
low-self-esteem. If the world was a global village, why are Europeans not answering African names?
We owe it to our ancestors and to our next
generation to reverse this disgraceful act of abandoning who we are for
something else. We owe it to our children to retrace our steps and be 100%
Africans.
The process of changing your name is one of
the easiest things to do in many countries. Your old documents will still bear
your old slave name, while your new documents will bear your new name as a FREE
BLACK MAN. If you don’t know how to go about it, you can ask questions. Any
lawyer would guide you accordingly.
AFRICANS are great people. Let us show that
in our attitude, names, culture, achievements, and enterprise. Let no one tell
you that your name is not good enough. Let no enslave you any further.