Your post was insulting enough for me to completely ignore you. You have a long way to go before this debate is even relevant to you (namely--you need to check your obviously stereotypical view of Africans and African names). I don't know where you got the idea that I have the slightest bit of interest in converting you. 'm not really interested in being your teacher; I'm trying to reach out to like-minded brothers and sisters that I may disagree with, but whom I still respect. Using the evidence of your post, I doubt that you're some one I want to bother with. Now, if you had come up with some serious reasons to justify your preference of "Black" over "African" or "African American", like BooDah, K-Love and several others did, we'd be talking.