Grab,

With regard to your comment about "echo words/names", I want to clarify that I'm not saying that African Americans are the only people who like these names/words. What I am saying is that these types of double names & and double words seem to be quite common in African American {and perhaps other Black} cultures.

It seems to me that there are certain sound perferences that specific groups of people seem to prefer over time & space. And these, in my opinion, we African Americans seem to like or resonate to double or echo words/names.

As to "Bebe", as I'm sure you know the same spelling of a word with the same, similar, or different meaning can be found in different languages throughout the world. I didn't mean to imply that there was only one or two meanings for Bebe or any other word I've cited.

Also as to the skin coloring of Black folks and Greeks and Turks and North Africans who you mentioned in your 10 May 06 - 07:49 AM post,
I believe that what is now is now what was in ancient times. "Black" as a referent for people in Saharan and sub-Saharan Africa did not in the past and and does not now always mean very dark skin.





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