(October 6, 2015 at 11:37 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: Honestly, I'm not entirely sure why calling the kid "Kunta Kinte" is offensive. I've seen Roots, and, for his situation (a slave trying to stay alive in a horrific situation thousands of miles from one's family), Kunta Kinte was pretty badass. It could be the whole renaming thing is a very sensitive issue with the black community.
I can imagine it might have something to do with the association to black slavery. Would you like to be reminded at every turn "people that looked like me used to own people that look like you"?
I can't fully grasp how a black person feels about that, but I imagine if I were in their shoes, I'd be pretty fucking honked off about it.
