Welcome to Black Ghetto Baby Names
Welcome young brother and sister, father and mother to be,
Thank you for visiting Black Ghetto Baby Names. Despite the site’s title, the purpose of my web page is to excite and inform my readership of not only the beautiful names frequently used by speakers of African American Vernacular English, but also the history of the names, and notable individuals that have shared them.
However, today I wish to simply introduce myself and ramble a bit. As a first example of “black ghetto baby names” , I will dispel the myth of the name being ghetto and bring my own name to the forefront. My name is DeShawn Roberts, which means “God is Gracious”… Roberts. Yes, these syllables may seem random but they are indeed laden with meaning, meaning enough that I could not imagine, nor my parents, nor their parents before them, imagine their roots.
See, in a certain way, every name both HAS and IS its own story, its own magic, and a root system that travels deep into the wet earth of history, through bone dry soil, and into the source of the nile of East Africa, from a time when man and wilderness were inseparable. In times like those, to have someone’s name was to gain their power. And in a certain way, this same primeval sentiment has continued with us today in names like Tanginika, Lake Goddess, or Tyronica, Goddess of Battle.
To sign off for today’s post, I remind all that a name is not a right. Thousands of children grow up without even that one syllabic kernel to which they can hitch their wind-tossed existence. Take the time to think about your name, and wonder at its meaning which plumbs the depths of human history, whose meaning you comprise but a particle: a dirt-swept sidewalk puddle in the eye of the earth’s vast underground ocean.
We appreciate your readership at Black Ghetto Baby Names. Please return in short order to share in our celebration of knowledge and humanity, and the African American name.
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