UNDER THE HYPNOTIC SPELL OF THE LEFT, BLACKS - IN THE LATE 1960'S AND 1970'S - WERE LED TO BELIEVE THAT THE NAMES THEY HAD LIVED WITH FOR GENERATIONS, (LIKE GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER, AND MARTIN LUTHER KING, AND JACKIE ROBINSON, AND FREDERICK DOUGLASS), WERE "SLAVE NAMES" AND THAT THEIR "REAL AFRICAN NAMES" WERE THINGS LIKE KAREEM ABDUL JABBAR, AHMAD RASHAD, AND MUHAMMAD ALI.
WIKI:
On May 1, 1971, the day after the Bucks won the NBA championship, he adopted the Muslim name Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, its Arabic translation roughly "generous/noble (Kareem), servant of (Abdul) the mighty/stern one (Jabbar) [i.e., of God]."
THIS ACTUALLY TURNS HISTORY AND THE TRUTH ON IT'S HEAD.
IN FACT, THE AFRICANS WHO ENDED UP HERE IN THE USA WERE ORIGINALLY SYSTEMATICALLY CAPTURED AND SOLD INTO SLAVERY - NOT BY WHITES, BUT BY OTHER AFRICANS AND PREDOMINANTLY MUSLIMS.
EUROPEANS - WHITES - DID NOT LEAD MARAUDING FORAYS INTO AFRICA TO HUNT AND TRAP AFRICANS IN ORDER TO BRING THEM TO THE NEW WORLD.
THE SLAVES BROUGHT TO THE NEW WORLD WERE ALREADY SLAVES. THE EUROPEANS MERELY WENT INTO THE MAJOR SLAVE-TRADING PORTS AND BOUGHT THEM FROM MUSLIM AFRICANS; (BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA SENIOR IS ONE SUCH AFRICAN MUSLIM).
SO WHEN AFRICAN-AMERICANS CHANGE THEIR NAMES TO ONES THAT SOUND MUSLIM, THEY ARE ACTUALLY - AND IRONICALLY - TAKING THE NAME OF THE PEOPLE WHO PUT THEM INTO SLAVERY.
THE GREAT MOVIE "THE NAKED PREY" ACCURATELY DEPICTED MUSLIM ENSLAVEMENT OF AFRICANS; HERE'S AN EXCERPT:
IN FACT, WHITE CHRISTIAN EUROPEANS ENDED THE GLOBAL SLAVE TRADE.
CHRISTIANS LIKE WILLIAM WILBERFORCE.
YES: THIS TRADE PERSISTS IN SMALL WAY - BUT ONLY AMONG MUSLIMS OF AFRICA.
AFRICAN-AMERICANS WHO HAVE NAMES LIKE KARREM ABDUL JABBAR SHOULD CHANGE THEIR NAMES BACK.
THEY'RE NOT JUST MORE TRUE AND MORE REFLECTIVE OF HISTORY, BUT NAMES LIKE LEW ALCINDOR AND CASSIUS CLAY SOUND BETTER.