#17. Re your comment “but with a name like “Tre’Shun”...
Here is part of a short news story from the Wash. Post’s Metro section on Jan. 21st - “Local Digest: The District” - “2 teens are charged with armed carjacking”.
They beat a 69 year old woman with “a heavy object and severely injured” her, according to her daughter and a police account.
KAVEYON Andrews, 16 of Northeast Washington, and THADDUSE Hartridge, 17, of Southeast, were charged as adults with assault with intent to rob while armed, and armed carjacking”.
PLUS
“Andrews and Hartridge also were charged with armed robberies on Wednesday, in the 3000 block of Sherman Ave., NW, and on Dec. 12, in the 1000 block of Irving St, NW. Those locations are also in Columbia Heights”.
As the old philosopher once say, “There is something in a name”. Black parents are destroying their children’s self image when giving them butt-ugly and foolish names.
While this name corruption has been attributed to blacks wanting to distance themselves from “white” cultural domination, there aren’t too many Nobel Prize winners named “Tre’Shun”, “Treyvon”, “DeVonta/Vontey”, Thadduse or Kaveyon.
It is as though some parents are deliberately setting up their kids to fail, even if that is actually NOT their goal.
They have to wake up and say, let’s give these kids names that won’t be laughed at, which will hurt their own self-respect. Let’s dress them like normal people, not refugees from “dumpster diving” or homeless shelters. No, ok you can wear your pants down around your knees with a sign that says “I’m available”.
The same for the girls. Dress them like you would want to dress yourself, respectable, in good taste, and adequately. Even if you have to shop at Walmart or Target (they have some very nice clothes at very good prices), do it for the kids if you love them.
Make them look respectable so that they can view themselves as respectable (and behave as such too).
It all starts with a name at birth, even before they have clothes. Don’t cripple them as soon as they are born. Life can be hard enough without having a name that is ridiculous and demeaning.
Off topic but wanted to agree with you about Target clothes. Amazing bang for buck! They totally revamped their clothing offerings about two years ago. Wherever is curating their collection (seems weird to use those terms for Target but it fits) really knows what they’re doing. The other day a cute girl complemented me on a parka jacket I bought there. I told her thanks and you wouldn’t believe where I got it. She said where and I said Target and she said yeah she actually could totally believe it. She said she loved shopping there and got frequent complements on her finds. So apparently the women’s collection is pretty good too. I don’t like Target’s politics but they are nailing it with their clothes. Big step up from Wal-Mart but not much more expensive.