Somehow I knew her name was Shanika.
It seems to me that if black parents would give their kids more normal American names they’d stand a better chance in life. Stop using misspelled royalty terms as names (Jermajesty and crap like that), stop over-using Qs and ending names with “-isha” and “-iqua” for the girls. Not every guy’s name has to be “Shawn” with a prefix added, nor anything ending in “-avious” or “-trell”. And names typically don’t require apostrophes to indicate a syllable break.
I have 3 black coworkers and all have normal names and all are well-adjusted and normal and nice. None would be described as ghetto. Not saying it proves causation, but normal names for normal people and ghetto names for ghetto people kinda makes sense in how things tend to play out.
But somehow I don’t think this is the kind of “dialogue” the grievance industry folks are talking about when they demand we have one.
I knew a white girl named Shanika.
said no one, ever.