How do you know that name wasnt cute until they formed a black alter? You dont. You dont know them.
The comment I originally made for context:
Well listen: if you have a Black alter and their name is a traditionally Black name that have been mocked for so long for being ‘out there’ and ‘too Black’ and ‘too ghetto’ and you use Black names for them I’m going to side eye the fuck out of your system and that alter. I don’t give two fucks. Latisha wasn’t cute to you until you formed a Black alter, now suddenly you want that? It’s appropriation actually.
Way to straw man the heck out of what I’m saying but I’ll humor you, okay? You can appreciate a culture. You can appreciate Blackness. You can love Black culture, you can have alters that objectively are a blueprint of Black people. However, you are not Black. You will never understand what it’s like to live with a traditionally Black name, or have to put ‘African American’ on former sheets and be automatically judged. Similarly, your “Black” alter will never experience the same scrutiny. Ever.
As such you shouldn’t go by any Black name as a non-Black system, because you don’t know what it’s like to be Black. You don’t know what it’s like to have an ethnic name, nor the discrimination that comes from it. You have to remember, this is not a decision that exists in a vacuum. It’s like when a Black person does something or says something and white people catch on and appropriate the slang, start suddenly “allowing” certain music is be “liked and mainstream” etc… it’s appropriation of names that have historically been looked down on and seen as ghetto, low class and uncivilized.
So I don’t care how much you love or hate the culture. You’re not part of the culture, so don’t appropriate the culture. And it’s not really your, presumably non-Black person, say on what does and doesn’t count as cultural appropriation vs appreciation, but the Black system community.
TLDR: don’t be racist, and fuck off if you hear a whole explanation and still wanna cry about it