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Does ANY one know where the names like Bumqueshnia and Taquarvius and the like came from? Who started it?
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I ask that same question and I wanted to do a research paper or thesis paper on this very topic. I thought the Black names started in the 70's I guess when the people born in the 50's and 60's were having kids. The parents were around during the full swing of the Black Pride movement (Malcolm X and Black Panthers, etc) and their children's "Black" names came as a result of that. This is just my theory though. But I see these Black names as a way of Black people rejecting the dominant culture and a desire to form something uniquely Black American. However, this does of course come with the backlash of other people, Black, White and other saying these names are ridiculous as well as discrimination.