With a name like "Ja'eisha" the kid never stood a chance.
You said: With a name like "Ja'eisha" the kid never stood a chance.
You are exactly right, but expect to be called a racist for saying it. The names given to some of these children doom them to a life in poverty and, well, just ugliness. There are stories galore about some of the names given to these innocent children, so I won't go into that, but names like these are symptomatic of separation from the mainstream of American culture. That may sound extreme, but I believe it is true. Who, blacks included, would use an accountant by the name of Ja'eisha? What corporation would elevate her to an executive position, regardless of her ability? What could her mother have been thinking? Obviously, she simply was NOT thinking. It might be different if her name meant anything in a language of her "native" Africa, but it does not. Lest anyone label ME racist, this phenomenon has an analog among some whites, with names given like Apple, River, etc. No one outside of show business would take people with such names seriously. Worse, the names encourage a certain separation from the mainstream, which in Ja'eisha's case, appears to have begun to work.
I'll save my opinions of this school "system" and its treatment of discipline problems for another rant. I guess the coffee is kicking in.
You are probably correct that the kid never stood a chance
but Her name had very little to do with it.
Looks like someone should have been calling her name a lot
well before things ever got to this stage. Followed up by
a good butt whipping I might add.
I agree, these "parents" who give their children names from the afro-sounding but nobody on the continent has that name, or naming their kids after animals or natural phenomena should be arrested for abuse.
I don't even know where to start pronouncing that.