[freedomlover]

There is an Atlanta retal surgeon named Dr. Grablowsky

[Caipirabob]

I'm sure this is common among many areas...giving a weird name. Yet our company has grown from 4 people to over 50 in our building in the past 6 years and now there are a number of black guys I work with in various departments. Two have foreign names but assumed typical names like "Tony". This, plus each of them speak better English than I do. Everyone I work with is "good people" and they just add to the environment. So just to throw this out there, there are quite a few black men who simply alter the circumstances and continue to perform with excellence.

[rarestia]

Ex-girlfriend of mine said she had a cute little black girl in her 1st grade class (she's a teacher) whose name was Fe'malé (remove accents...).

Just mind boggling.

[redheadtoo]

The scary thing about this article is that, after a while, white culture often adopts aspects of black culture. I have already seen young white kids who were given crazy, made-up names by their parents.

[kevkrom]

Baby's Named A Bad, Bad Thing

My personal favorite is from the end of Part 4:

My fiance and I named our first born Cam'ron, I thougt at the time it was pretty unique but the name was actually pretty common last May. Just different spellings.

Oh dear God, they've discovered random punctuation to go with random lettering. Any minute now, they're going to bust out the umlauts and I've going to go into hiding.

[babble-on]

One thousand!

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Ya gotta admit though.......... Mookie Blaylock has a kind of a nice ring to it! ;-)

[Polyxene]

I was calling roll on the first day of school -- monotone, very boring -- when I got to "Ronald McDonald". When I realized the name I had said, I almost lost it. The poor boy said, "Here." And then in a small voice said, "Would you please call me "Ron". Sure thing, I said. He was the nicest boy in the class. Felt so sorry for him -- how could any parent do that to a child?

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

Part of the validity of this writer's argument is the success of the Asians. They immigrate here (legally, mind you) and many of them choose Anglo-Saxon names for their second generation. It may look a bit strange to see the combination of the two, but you'd think Asians with names like Bertha, Amos, etc., would have two strikes against them (according to the thinking of the parents the writer of the article is addressing). But they very often do very well at school and in their careers. So, obviously the name is less important than the raising of the child.

Yet another symbolism-over-substance cop-out by those who want everything handed to them, including respect.

[cartoonistx]

I seem to remember a SNL bit about this subject. The skit had black camp councelors trying to pronounce the black kids' names. The one that cracked me up was "Clitoria"! I did know a mother who named her kid "Sharcole".

[TeddyCon]

Buquita Krahq Mckinney

[Budge]

Couple here in town named their boy...here's how it's pronounced... she-'ted

He's an adult now.

I'm not going to post how it's spelled, I might get kicked off for talking dirty!

[RhoTheta]

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