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A good friend of mind asked me a very provocative question recently.

“Setoiyo, if black people were the first to land in America what would they have called this land?”

Unfortunately I do not possess the mental aptitude to give a definitive answer to as to what the name of this country would be. However, knowing us blacks we prolly would have changed the name of this country at least 27 times (this is neither good nor bad, just how I see it). While I can’t tell you what those 27 names would have been... I can give you 5 that I believe would have been chosen between the time period of 1800-2010.

1. “Umbuntwana” (hold over from the continent of Africa).
2. “Harlemo” (remember this is if blacks got here first. We love names that end in ‘A’ or ‘O’).
3. “Ass-land” (this may seem like a lazy one, but keep in mind we love asses and its fair to say there would have been at least 3 civil wars revolving around a woman’s ass. I like to call this “nigga romance”).
4. “New Africa (.this name, or some off-shoot of it, would have stuck around the longest. You would still have separate nation states as opposed to the states in America).
5. “James Brown ( pretty self explanatory. I’m fairly convinced that if blacks would have gotten here first he would have been the best shot at a unified president. This would have been great for the whole world in terms of music...however, it prolly would have also marked the end of the black man’s ‘rule’ over this country and would have shifted power to our Asian counterparts...Yes, Asian.