[chemicalman]

I'm waiting for the brand name drugs to be used.
Livitra, Viagra, Lipitor, etc.

[LS]

My favorite, there was a U. of Oklahoma back named Rotney. Yep.

Course, whites don't get off the hook, either. The commander of the Pearl Harbor fleet on Dec. 7 was named "Husband."

Can you imagine that poor wife at dinner parties? "I'd like to introduce my husband, Husband." "Glad to meet you, meet you."

And, no joke, I went to HS with a retarded girl named Pigg. Her idiot parents named her . . . Ima. I kid you not.

[ShadowAce]

I've heard Female, pronounced "Fe-mah-lay", and Gina, short for a female body part. The poor mother had no idea what it meant--just saw it on a hospital chart, and thought it sounded pretty.

[HEY4QDEMS]

I made a vow to the moon and stars that I'd search the honky tonks and bars and kill the man that gave me that awful name.

[Revolting cat!]

Worry not, FRiends. The way things are going at our borders we'll soon be naming all our children Jesus, second name Abdul.

[wallcrawlr]

A boy named Sue?

[Calvin Locke]

Black Americans aren't the only ones. I remember an earlier article abouts kids named after products. Meridian sticks in
my mind as being among the more acceptable. Only four syllables too.

However, I recall a some march on CSPAN that ended with some would-be rapper calling himself "Prime Meridian".

[UCANSEE2]

bttt.

A round of standing ovation to this person for 'telling it like it is'.

[JustaDumbBlonde]

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

[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.

[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.

[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:

[EveningStar]

You have a magazine? :)

[AmishDude]

Oddly enough, many of them still see the Negro in the room as ‘non-existent’ or invisible, so they talked like I wasn’t even in the room. I hear everything they say. When Nakia Shaniquah-Quashiqua fills out an application, they have a field day in the office. Once they get their fill of ghetto and ‘weave’ jokes and ripping you to pieces sight unseen, they usually toss the application, or it gets stuck in the ‘bottom of the pile’.

While I think the article is generally true, this paragraph struck me as BS. In the corporate world, a "Laquisha" indicates you can check off at least two affirmative action boxes.

[Alberta's Child]

"I'm laughing, but this is serious" ping.

[SittinYonder]

My three children all have family names for both first and middle names. They are named for a famous 9th great-grandfather and his son, named for a great-grandfather who fought in the Civil War, named for me, my brother and their grandfathers and one of my grandfathers.