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But if Rumi is a Japanese name, isn't it cultural appropriation for African-American parents to use it?

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Also, where in the Deep South do you live? (It's okay if you don't want to say.) I think you said once that you lived in the Carolinas... I haven't seen much racism here (only lived here for a few months though). But Charlotte is a majority African-American area, so that could be part of it. The racial dynamics are very, very different here, though. It definitely feels like there's a divide between white people and black people, that I never noticed when I lived in CO.

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