"Matt! What are you going to do? I hope you can give us an answer as soon as possible!" A black man stepped forward. He didn't want to be "discriminated" anymore, and his anger was unbearable: "I'm going to kill this bastard now!"
"This bastard is still useful!" Matt quickly stopped him. Black people always do things neatly.
He is definitely a type of person who can do things but never push back.
It’s not their fault. After all, starting from their ancestors who had been reduced to black slaves, white people who considered themselves noble had treated them like this. They would beat or maim them if they were not satisfied at all.
Therefore, they have such violence in their bones. They have carried this kind of thing with them from their mother's womb. They do it when they say it. There is no ambiguity.
"Can you really squeeze a lot of money out of this guy?" Another black man also spoke. He seemed to be the leader of this group of guys.
"Of course, I won't lie to you." Matt said: "Quinta, I will never lie to you. Believe me, as long as we control this guy, we can make a lot of money."
"Several hundred million dollars?" Quinta's expression was still a bit doubtful.
"Of course." Matt said: "I guarantee that with the support of this money, you will definitely improve the status of the Gent family among black people by several levels! Even Anthony who plays in the NBA will be willing to carry your shoes.
of."
Xu Yun and Lin Ge like to watch basketball on weekdays. When they heard the name "Social Melon" mentioned, they couldn't help but laugh.
"Aren't you doing as well as those basketball players now?" Lin Ge said: "Come on, my main job is to play in the NBA and my side job is to be a gangster, which is better than you. You still have the nerve to say it here.
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When Kunta heard Lin Ge's words, his face changed instantly: "Do you know Anthony?"
"Of course I know him." Lin Ge said: "When he was in Denver, I thought he was pretty good at playing. After coming to New York, he really got worse and worse. Could it be that he only focused on being a gangster, so he didn't
What’s the desire to win?”
"Quinta, don't listen to his nonsense." Matt said: "There is no way he knows Anthony."
He is a star in the NBA. Although he is the least competitive player and has the least achievements, he is also the only guy in high school who can compete with the chosen one, LeBron, and score points against each other. He is extremely talented.
"The Jinte family...are your ancestors from West Africa?" Xu Yun, who had been silent for the whole time, suddenly asked.
Kunta was stunned for a moment: "How do you know?"
Xu Yun nodded and did not explain anything. Anyway, the explanation was probably difficult enough for them to understand.
The name is an important symbol of a person's identity, so every ethnic group gives it a very important connotation. Although most black people have little culture, they attach great importance to names that many other races do not.
There are even many black people who believe that names are an important component of their personality, even part of their souls! People without names will be destroyed in this life and the next!
As the saying goes, wounds can be cured, but wrong names are difficult to treat.
For a social group like black people who record a person's history and identity in oral form, the choice of a newborn's name is more significant than a social group with a written history.
Even under slavery, black people struggled to grasp their own names and identify with their own culture.
Black Africans attach great importance to names and regard names as closely related to destiny, honor and dignity. Names are regarded as the foundation of a person. A naming ceremony is held a few days after a newborn is born.
Xu Yun has seen the naming ceremony.
During the ceremony, people poured a jar of water on the roof, and one of the eldest women put the baby under the water and let it cry. While crying, everyone gave gifts to express their congratulations.
Then the local respected elders give the baby a name, and the child with the name can become a member of the family. After naming, people also have to worship gods and ancestors, and carry the child to the grandfather's grave to recognize their ancestors.
The names of the Yoruba people in West Africa are often composed of multiple syllables, each syllable represents a certain meaning. A name may be a phrase or even a sentence, and the names of children represent the hopes of their parents.
For Africans, a name is not just a symbol, it is a reflection of a person's position in family history and has profound connotations.
Of course, the racial disasters in the past were terrible. Black people were sold to the Americas and became slaves. They were forced to leave their homes, wandering around, without any relatives, and had no property. They were even deprived of their freedom. Their African cultural complex was cut off, and even their original names were cut off.
It is also difficult to preserve.
Although the naming customs of black Africans are different from each other, they all cherish their names equally, so no matter where they come from in Africa, the mental pain caused by losing their names is unbearable for ordinary people.
This is the unbearable mental oppression that black people endured during the process of falling from free people to slavery.
White people realize that in order for black people to accept the status of enslavement, they must re-understand their own identities. Renaming slaves is an important means to reflect the authority of the master and make slaves recognize reality. Being able to name others is a sign of dominance.
reflect.
In order to make black people forget their past and previous identity, white people first forced slaves to give up their names and have their masters rename them. This marked the death of black people's former selves and their new names represented new identities.
For black people, a group that attaches great importance to names, losing their own names has undoubtedly caused serious psychological trauma to them.
It caused him great mental pain.
For them, losing their names means being separated from their past cultural traditions, being forced to forget their place in family history, and losing their dignity as a human being.
Therefore, even under the high pressure of slavery, black people have been working hard to maintain their African cultural traditions and continue and develop their African cultural complexes in North America through naming.
The first generation of black slaves and their children were mostly named by their masters. Starting from the second generation of blacks born in North America, although a few slave owners still insisted on naming the descendants of slaves themselves, many handed over the right to name slave newborns to
The child's parents.
On the one hand, this is due to the increase in the number of black slaves, especially in larger plantations. Masters do not have much energy to name new slaves. On the other hand, it is the result of the slaves' own efforts, because they have no intention of naming their children.
regarded as an important right.
White people did not allow black slaves to use their own names. The main purpose was to make them forget their past history.
Xu Yun read a documentary novel, which tells the story of a black man who was kidnapped by white people while logging in West Africa and transported to Virginia. His owner named him Toby, but when his companions called him by this name, he refused to accept it and repeatedly told them
He gave his name and told them that he was a descendant of the Jint family!
Moreover, he also passed down the family history to his daughter in oral form. What he repeatedly emphasized was not only his name, but more importantly, his cultural identity.
Some of the early black people who were trafficked to North America successfully retained their African names.
The Kunta in front of him cares so much about his family, which shows that he cares deeply about his family and its name.
Maybe this guy is really the descendant of the owner in the documentary novel that Xu Yun himself read.
Xu Yun casually asked him if he was from West Africa, and he was indeed from West Africa. All this can be said to be a coincidence.
"Quinta, ignore this guy, this guy is useless." Matt glanced at Xu Yun and waved his hand directly: "Kill him!"
This guy was really good at what he did. Lin Ge almost came forward and killed him because of his words.
"Kill him?" Kunta was stunned for a moment, pointed at Lin Ge and said: "This Chinese can get hundreds of millions of dollars, but just kill this Chinese? Isn't he worth a penny?"
"Believe me, I know very well that everyone around Carlos is a vampire and a parasite, and they all live and feed on Carlos!" Matt said: "So he is of no use at all.
Kill him, just do it neatly!"
Although Quinta was a little confused, he still chose to believe Matt. After all, the temptation of hundreds of millions of dollars was very big.
Kunta gave his men a look, and a black man behind Xu Yun took out the dagger behind him and walked straight towards Xu Yun.
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