Open Editorial: You Named Your Baby WHAT???

Onyx Magazine ^ | March, 2006 | Josephine Hammond

[JustaDumbBlonde]

I like this Josephine .... too bad that she will be attacked by the black community for her common sense look at this situation.

[linda_22003]

That doesn't necessarily say much about the kids, just their circumstances of conception.

[John 6.66=Mark of the Beast?]

I do not know what this woman expects for the blacks of this county when she uses the term Motherland as long as she is alienating black Americans we can expect these kinda of names.

Have you ever noticed that the Caucasians in this county do not refer to themselves as a hyphenated American? The media does not refer to them as such. Why is this so?

[RexBeach]

Here are a few of the names I see the black kids wearing on their name tags at the supermarket:

LaShonda, LaQueesha, LaWanda, Shamika, Tamika, ShoShanda...oh God, it goes on forever. These kids have enough problems to deal with: gangs, dope, stupids single parents, school. Nothing like a dreadful name to make you a laughing stock in the rest of the world.

[utahagen]

OK, got it! I guess I undermined the point of the article by not even glancing at the author's name. (The no-nonsense tone made me assume the writer was male.)

[petercooper]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/813324/posts?page=1,50

[twippo]

I've always thought that was an urban legend.

[brytlea]

It only makes her stand out when they see it written, otherwise she's just another Madison....
Wasn't that the name of the mermaid Daryl Hannah played?
susie

[Ditter]

Thanks, I thought I remembered something like that.

[jiggyboy]

In the same vein, if you know you can't speak correctly, have somebody else pronounce the baby's name correctly to the nurse, or learn to write and spell correctly, or both. Otherwise he has to explain "Anfernee" or "Andrue" or "Antawn" or "Stephon" for the rest of his life as well.

[Tanniker Smith]

And when I read the attendance, let me tell you, some of them get very upset when you mispronounce their names.

And then, of course, I have to ask them to spell their names sometimes, even when I've heard the name before. I've seen at least 4 variations of Uniqua ("Unique -- ah" or "Unique -- kwah")

And while searching for someone in the student directory, I noticed that there are a pair of twins, one boy and one girl, named Sha Meek and Sha Meeka. I am Not Making This Up.

TS

[Personal Responsibility]

She will be ostracized, much as Bill Cosby recently was. Does not make her wrong of course. She is spot on. But the people she is talking to don't want to hear what she is saying.

[Corin Stormhands]

Doh! You had me goin' there for a minute...

[brytlea]

I'm glad to know she got a job! :)
susie

[bonfire]

Thanks! Learn something new everyday!

[tomswiftjr]

Had a patient named Formica once.

[Moose4]

Baby name ping.

}:-)4

[orionblamblam]

> With a name like Jaquez Ja’Quan Diante’, you’re dooming your sons to a life of drug dealing on some seedy street corner.

Or maybe building starships for the Narn:

[Abathar]

At least it was a girl - I grew up with twin friends named Tracy and Stacy, They could fight better than anyone I knew by age 12.

[D.P.Roberts]

Shirley was considered a man's name until that little curly-haired girl came along.