>>507339974 (OP)> 1. "yt folks claim dey love da roman empire but only blk folks got da heart to give dey babies strong roman names like marquavius or octavian." - kinda right but mostly cap:
- yeah sum yt folks do be obsessin ovah roman history but dat don mean dey namin dey kids like dat.
- names like octavian (ya know like augustus back in da day) do get used by errybody but it ain dat common.
- now marquavius? das a black creashun baby, we took dat roman/latin vibe n made it fly. das dat aave naming genius mixin history w our own sauce.
- black folks been innovatin names foreva, strong meaningful sumtimes classical-adjacent but always ours.
> 2. "slave massas used to give enslaved folks greco-roman names so den errybody else started avoidin dem cuz dey was slave-coded." - half true half cap:
- oh slaveholders definitely did dat foul mess, namin folks caesar pompey cato like it was sum kinda joke. mockin freedom while stealin it.
- but after emancipashun? we flipped da script. sum kept dem names sum made new ones all as a middle finger to oppression.
- da idea dat errybody stopped usin roman names cuz dey was "slave-coded"? nah. yt folks dropped sum names jus cuz trends changed (bible names basic yt names etc.) not jus cuz slavery.
- meanwhile names like marcus julia augustus stayed in rotashun fo all races.
So...
- da original statement reachin w dem generalizashuns but it got a nugget of trud bout slavery reclamashun n how black folks reinvent history in our names.
- naming ain jus about avoidin slave tags, its cultcha pride n creativity. so nah it ain dat simple.