[Leofl]

pings for later...thanks

[Alouette]

Condoleezza.

[Darkwolf377]

I'd love to have a penny for every time this woman will be called a race traitor for daring to write this.

[TXBubba]

Hey it isn't just limited to "African"-Americans. I have plenty of caucasion friends who give their kids seemingly "normal" names. Then you find out they are spelling it some really strange way. Poor kid is going to be correctly people their whole life. Idiot parents.

[utahagen]

This guy is 100% right.

[satchmodog9]

Some white folks do a disservice to their kids with the names they give their kids. Names mean things. I saw a bunch of cards with kids names on them at a store. Some were real names with their meanings printed under them. There were other popular made up names that had suggestions for meanings so you can lie to your kids and make them feel special.

[conserv13]

Great article. Thanks

[eyedigress]

How about Lemonjello ("Le'mon'jelow")

[Xenalyte]

Ping!

[warchild9]

My favorite was "Jabonga," who applied for a job in my group several years ago. I was kind of looking forward to meeting her, since I'd worked with West Africans before, and found they're hard workers and I really like them.

Welll, Jabonga turned out to be a radicalized black from Texas, and I didn't need a problem waiting to happen like that in an employee...

The article is dead on.

[stainlessbanner]

Roseanne Rosannadanna

[Revolting cat!]

[lesko]

Another column needs to address what white people are naming their babies. Some of the dumbest names I have ever heard: Laramie (named after a county in Wyoming), Rain, and Nevaeh (heaven spelled backwards) are a few I have heard lately.

[D.P.Roberts]

No, no, I like people with screwball names. That way you know there's a problem before you get too close

[brytlea]

Hey...what's wrong with Susie??
susie

[absolootezer0]

studies have shown that teacher will pay less attention to a student who's name they can't pronounce.
but those names are better than a few i've run across lately: vodka, tequilla, kahlua, and erotica are some. these are GIVEN names, not nicknames.

[eyedigress]

shi-thead always a favorite

[Antoninus]

My all-time favorite is a girl I once met named Lasanya.

And no, she didn't have a sister named Ravioli. I asked.

[Doctor Stochastic]

People living the Fancy Belt have had unusual names for years. Mencken's books on American English describe this.

[Red Badger]

Bill Cosby was excoriated for saying something similar........