Posted on 04/07/2021 12:42:24 PM PDT by LibertyWoman
Former St. Louis Treasurer Tishaura Jones defeated fellow Democrat Cara Spencer to win the St. Louis Mayoral race.
Tishaura Jones is a radical leftist who is very critical of St. Louis City policing.
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The murder rate in St. Louis City hit a 50-year high in 2020
Thanks. Kiel was a builder, wanted his city to grow (it was booming on his watch) and be the best it could be. He couldn’t fathom people wanting to tear it down and destroy it as we see the Demonrats do today.
An interesting study should be made, if it hasn’t already, of the correlation between Blacks with non-”creative” Americanized names (say, Jack, Charles, Bill, etc.) vs. ones with “creative” on their likelihood to be involved with criminal behavior. I guarantee those with “creative” names have a higher than average predilection than those without.
Even on a non-criminal note, I recalled that young actress from the Black “Annie” movie with the unpronounceable or un-spellable name (which I had to look up), Quvenzhané Wallis. She’s only done a handful of projects in 7 years since that movie (and 2 years before that where she racked up a ton of awards in “Beasts of the Southern Wild”). Her parents, who both also have bizarre names, decided to mash up their names and add a corruption of a Swahili word to the end of it to create hers. Having done so, I will guarantee that has cost her projects simply because her name is unpronounceable. Curiously, the Swahili word they “added” to that alphabet mix was for “sprite” or “fairy.” Heaven forbid they could’ve called her Sprite (unconventional and creative, but not limiting) and we’d know who the actress “Sprite Wallis” is today without having to look it up.
Cultural apartheid is a disaster for all involved.
I’ve been sayin’ it, we need a national registry of appropriate baby names, with correct spellings for each name. Do you want to use a real name from another language or culture? Then you can petition to use it based on your ancestry, and I would be generous in granting such waivers. But no made-up sh1t or misspellings—it’s Antoine, not Antawn, Cindy, not Cyndee, and Juanita, not Wahneeta. (Before you accuse me of stereotyping black parents, here’s a true story: My wife and I once e-mailed with a bed-and-breakfast employee named “Wahneeta” regarding our reservation, and when we met her in person we were shocked to encounter this blond, blue-eyed, middle-aged lady with a New England accent.) And if an 18-year-old wants to change his name to “Moon Unit,” I won’t stand in his way, but child abuse is illegal and parents shouldn’t be allowed to commit child abuse through child-naming practices.
One of the Scandinavian countries has this. I recall reading to my students a news article from 2 decades ago at least where a woman was actually charged because she named her son “Christophpher.” (Not a misspelling).
My favorite candidate for a woman’s name is “chlaymidia.”
I believe that it was Denmark and that the parents who named their son Christoppher (I think that you got the spelling right) weren’t charged criminally but had to pay a fine once a year for refusing to change the spelling of their son’s name to a name on the official list. That case is from where I got the idea of having a national registry of acceptable names.
Were I in charge of the government, I just wouldn’t let parents register a child with such name, and instead would register the child with the closest acceptable name until the parents chose an acceptable name.
I once knew someone from Venezuela who swore to me that he knew a girl whose given name was “Clitoris.”
AuH2O could be approved with an extra fee
Whole city deserves to burn down, and under the Demonrats, it will. God’s wrath is on America, and it’s WELL DESERVED.
LOL! I didn’t consider that name for either of my daughters, but had I had a son ... : )
You are joking, right? Nobody retires to East St. Louis.
You are joking, right? Nobody retires to East St. Louis.
As I said, a dipstick cousin. They really did and feel a religious fervor regarding their choice.
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