I can't get over slavery. I'm reminded of it everyday of my single life. My last name. That;s why I can't get over it. My name is English and I'm not it infuriates me when white people say "you need to get over slavery" It just makes me made because they don't understand that I have to carry around a surname that doesn't suit me. I know that I didn't experience it directly like my ancestors in the Caribbean and Lousiana did but I still feel like their needs to be some resoultion in this last name situtation. And i recently found out my grandfather form the Dominican Republic was forced to ber this name and get rid of his Hispanic surname because the immigration officals at Ellis Island told him that he needed a "*****" name to fit in and this was at least in the 1940s, I will never get over this. Ugh! I tought about changing it but then I have to change my Social Securtiy number and my birth certiicate. What are some good African surnames?
2007-02-10
18:41:47
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