tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post1151618770099928993..comments2024-03-29T08:48:14.872-04:00Comments on pancocojams: The Afrocentric Meanings Of The Terms "Slave Names" & "Free Names" In The 1960s & 1970s United States & Quotes On Distinctive African American Names Azizi Powellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14963772326145910073noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post-26129257798676282562017-10-26T07:37:43.370-04:002017-10-26T07:37:43.370-04:00It occurs to me that maybe the reason why I haven&...It occurs to me that maybe the reason why I haven't found any information online about the afrocentric use of the terms "slave names" and "African free names" (or "free names") is because those terms may not of been used by any other people but the members of the Black power organization called "CFUN" (the Committee for Unified Newark). <br /><br />I was a member of that organization from around the end of 1966 until the summer of 1969. Imamu Amiri Baraka (formerly known as Le Roi Jones) was the leader of CFUN for much of that time. <br /><br />Another term that probably was unique to members of that organization was "house" meaning the person who a woman is romantically attached to (i.e. a woman's man or husband). <br /><br />For example, a woman might be asked "Who is your House?" If she was attached to a man, she would say "My House is Jamal." And if the woman wasn't attached, she would say "I don't have any House". <br /><br />I think that this use of the word "house" came from the view that the man was the head of the household (i.e. "the Lord of the manor"). <br /><br />I don't recall men referring to women as anyone "house", which demonstrates the way that males had a higher status in that organization - although the view was that the roles of males and females were "different" and not either higher or lower.<br /><br />By the way, in contrast to the Black Power organization, the Oakland California organization "US" that I believe served as a model for that Newark, New Jersey organization, males who were members of CFUN were supposed to have only one House (i.e. weren't supposed to be involved with more than one woman at a time), while males who were members of US were "allowed" to be polygamous.<br /><br />I lost touch with members of CFUN when I left Newark in 1969 and eventually moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I often wondered what happened to certain members of that organization, particularly certain sisters (women members) of that organization. I hope that life has been as good to them (or better) as it has been to me.Azizi Powellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14963772326145910073noreply@blogger.com