Ditching the surnames of our ancestors former masters is not in any shape or form the same as abandoning OUR home, or OUR nation that OUR people helped build and create or OUR culture that we freely created adopted, and practice. The fact that you equate all of that with names that were forced upon us by slave masters is beyond astonishing! And just plain dumb. The irony of your silly post is that our very commitment to individual liberty is what allows us to adopt any name that we so choose without issue. What the author suggests is quintessentially American and was an act already committed by such quintessentially American heroes like Malcolm X, and Muhammad Ali. What American(I assume you aren’t American given your misunderstanding of American values) would suggest that maintain the surnames of those who took your freedoms and rights from you?
