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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 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture Cultures & Groups Other - Cultures & Groups

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don't know any good African surnames.....It's easy for white people who think like that to say that because, white people and America as a whole are beneficiaries of slavery....not all white people think like that......and the ones that do aren't worth worrying about. the black people that think like are probably well off....I DEFINTELY don't mean to sound anti-semitic, but you wouldn't ask a Jewish person to get over the Holocaust..

2007-02-10 20:32:22 · answer #1 · answered by honeyaintthissweet 1 · 1 0

SISTA, what else can you do?. HISTORY is HISTORY. If you kept thinking about the PAST, you WILL NEVER move forward. I AM BLACK, and I DO NOT blame today's Whites for what happened 400 years ago. OF COURSE, it was horrible, so was their brain capacity to think that we were not human. We proved our selves over and over again, and WE NEED TO go on and BE THE BEST to prove everyone WRONG. However, complaining, and playing the race card or replaying history will NOT MAKE US MOVE FORWARD. History is meant to be history, and if you choose to LIVE HISTORY, than you will LIVE THE HISTORY, not the FUTURE. THE ONLY THING BLACK PEOPLE should do today is to reform and reestablish the status created by the Whites that meant to take effect for 400 years to come. We see that effect taking place in Africa and among Blacks in the Caribbean and North America. Let's find a way to re-correct these, and make that what they planned 400 years ago DO NOT take an effect. I don't see the Jews blaming the Germans or the Whites for the Holocaust, in fact they put all that behind and worked hard to be something today, Nagasaki, and Hiroshima were wiped out. Today, they are thriving world cities. Yes, slavery was going on for long time against a larger number of people. But still it is a HISTORY.

2007-02-11 04:17:52 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3 1

Glass is either half empty or half full.

I don't think you need to get over it, in one sense. I mean the injustice happened and it may be part of your family experience. If your poor, that combined with the law of numbers, (only very limited number of people can go from poverty to wealth), may partialy define why you are less poor.

A name is only a name? Is your grandfather's more legimate than yours now? At a certain point, you should cling to that name as being a link to him.

On the otherhand, knowing your background, knowing where the strength of some of your family came from, does not help you much right now. Changing your name is not going to make the past go away either. Getting mad at somebody because their great grandfather may have been a bad person does not help much either.

You are better to continue to walk tall, and go into the world with your pride, but keep the memory of your roots. Use that memory to define your value on how others should be treated.

2007-02-11 14:17:43 · answer #3 · answered by rostov 5 · 0 1

so what jews dont get over the holocaust no one doesnt get over any racial experience.

2007-02-11 05:44:26 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

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