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In Pursuit of My Name

Published about 2 months ago • 1 min read

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Hi Reader! I hope your are well.

In All The Black Girls Are Activists: A Fourth Wave Womanist Pursuit of Dreams as Radical Resistance, I touch on the historical impact white supremacy has on naming:

  1. The intentional stripping and renaming of our African ancestors was used to remove identity to dehumanize and assimilate them.
  2. White people re-naming others is a deep-rooted relationship with their colonizing ancestors. The great privilege of whiteness is that you operate with an arrogance that suggests that one does not have to make the basic effort of pronouncing a person's name correctly.

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Quotes

The power of a name is an affirmation of one's worthiness. “At the very least, we should be able to name ourselves.” -
​Alice Walker​
“If we were made in His image, then call us by our names. Most intellects do not believe in God, but they fear us just the same.” - Erykah Badu
“Holding our names as sacred is a revolutionary act of resistance and worthy of consideration from the inside and out.” - EbonyJanice

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