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nope i cannot and did not say that you were wrong, however, i am not wrong either because someone didn't just wake up one morning and say, hey! i'll call my child mazeesha! it just didn't happen. honestly, i was skeptic when i read it, then i boughtmaybe the people that wrote the books you read use african derivatives when naming children but in my experience not too many black people consider themselves to have anything to do with africans nowadays. yes back in the "black power days" in the 70s and again in the late 80s blacks went back to african root but it was a "fad" which soon faded for the majority of blacks in the US. but as you proved my point by not being able to give me a single name to prove what youve read. I think my point is more than proven in this instance
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0933121539/ref=sid_dp_dp/104-2906961-7206341?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance
another excellent read for when ur just curious. like i said, most of these "black" names were originally made by people who wanted to keep their roots, but now people have just twisted them so that they sound cooler and that people reconize them as black //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif. HOWEVER, it is proven fact that these ridiculous names do affect subjectiveness in the job market. many people believe that these Javont or the like named people are from poor or uneducated backgrounds. not as a bit of proof, but just like a side bar. notice the names that each ethnicity has brought to america. then notice when slaves arrived. no other race has names even remotely close //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif.
