Posted on 09/15/2014 3:34:00 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Nothing says throw away this resume like “Jawabada Dabada”.
I would actually be OK with black Americans changing their last names to something besides a slave-holders name, if that is what they want to do, but they should first realize that it isn't likely their last name came from the master. When slaves were emancipated 60-70% chose surnames other than their master's name. Thus, they have a surname that was chosen, not given. How many European surnames were given? After all, your name is what people call you, not what you necessarily choose it to be.
If employment agencies or large companies’ HR depts. are really concerned about possible discrimination based on names and or race/ethnic parameters there is a solution.
The resume’ of each applicant should only be given to the hiring Managers after blocking out those parameters, thus allowing decisions based only on experience and qualifications; completely eliminating any possible bias.
I was a hiring Manager at a large company, but never had resume’s with strange names favored by Blacks. I had employees of numerous ethnic groups and only one Paki had the given name of Perdue.
Truthfully, I was more biased regarding applicants from elite universities of the Ivy League and Stanford, because they all were brainwashed by their schools and profs to believe that as soon as they graduated they could command jobs paying a minimum of $50-75k (back in the late ‘80s-early ‘90s)! I was forced to interview many. Idiots all!
I recall some other weird English pronunciation, “St. John” comes out as Sinjin. Rog Moore’s Bond while undercover used it in AVTAK.
The problem with giving girls first names that go well with their ethnic last names, is they often then go marry somebody with a very different last name.
> Jayden is a black name? Doesn’t sound it to me.
I sure hope not because we have a family member with that name and he sure looks Irish to me...: )
I work with engineers from Kenya, Ivory Coast, Uganda, and a few other places on the continent of Africa. Their names are George, Phillip, Charles, Robert, and a Miguel. They look quite puzzled when the locals here in Memphis are named, Keneesha, Shaniqua, L’aundre’, etc.... They were born and raised in African countries and the people there do not share this weird phenomenon. Maybe Nelson, Winnie, Desmond, Nissen, Nigel, but not the “Amafrican” made up names that black Americans are so eager to create?
Epinephrine.
With how “it” has tuned out, the “black pride” thing has become “black embarrassment.”
> The study might really be “on” to something though. Names really are cyclical
There is power in the names that are given to individuals. I’ve noticed certain names are more predisposed towards criminal behavior while others are not in my 20 + years of doing thousands of background checks. One example us that I’ve noticed that a larger percentage of people with the middle name of Ray commit criminal acts for some reason and that persons that have Jr, III, or IV attached to their names are more apt to commit fraud or financal crimes for some reason. There’s probably more examples if I were to sit down and think about it.
The funny thing is, my wife and I are among 25 or so Caucasians in a predominantly black church. We know many black people with made up names. There are also many West Africans in our church, mostly Nigerians and Ghanians. They are native Africans with real African names, but not one is named Laquonda or Trayvon or any such name. The West Africans don’t speak Ebonics either. One Ghanian couple’s daughter was class valedictorian and is currently at Harvard. Both of her parents are M.D.s. The native Africans also tend to be more conservative.
Those names are ghetto names. They are not “black” names, as blacks from other countries do not name their children “Lakeesha”, “Quaneesha”, etc. and American blacks before 1970 didn’t name their children those names either.
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Maybe blacks woke up to the realization that a 400-pound welfare sweathog wasn’t going to suddenly become an exotic hottie because she had a pseudo-seductive name like Shandalier or Klamidiya. In fact, it just made her look even more ridiculous by contrast.
The authors of “Freakonomics” found that having an oddly spelled or pronounced name does not interfere with the child’s financial future. However, it does usually reflect parents who have little financial future.
Reminds me of the old joke about the young Indian boy who asked his father just how did he decide what to name his children.
“After they are born when I leave the teepee, I name them after the very first thing I see”
That is why I named your sister “White Cloud” and your brother “Soaring Eagle”
Why do you ask, Two Dogs Fu...ng?”
My blonde, green eyed daughter has a Jamaican first name, an Hispanic maiden name, and a Scandinavian married name. People are often surprised.
Mineral Niece, who has an african American mother, is named Noelle Anastasia.
Further, it is important to note that may black citizens changed their last names as well so not to be associated with the white roots of the name.
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When plantation slaves were given freedom (a common thing even before the CW) they usually took the last name of their former owners, as they were generally several generations removed from their African tribal names.
My surname derives from England and there are/have been numerous Blacks with the same surname since the 1800s in the US, because my ancestors in the 1600-1800s did have slaves.
Madison sounds like a boy’s name. Why is it so popular with girls?
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