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To: WayneS

Names like that occur more frequently in the black community. It’s a cultural thing. In Chicago’s 7th District a black candidate named Princess Dempsey was challenged because many outside her community thought the name “Princess” gave her an unfair advantage on the ballot, especially since it was an acquired rather than a birth certificate name. She won that challenge because, among other things, the judge rightly recognized the cultural tone-deafness of such claims.

If the name itself isn’t unusual, the spellings can be varied as a way to identify with a unique cultural niche, to form a bond of group identification. Don’t infer that it means the same thing within that group that it seems to mean outside the group. Outsiders are not expected to “get it.”


30 posted on 12/02/2010 11:37:02 AM PST by Springfield Reformer (Winston Churchill: No Peace Till Victory!)
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To: Springfield Reformer
"...the name “Princess” gave her an unfair advantage on the ballot, especially since it was an acquired rather than a birth certificate name. She won that challenge because, among other things, the judge rightly recognized the cultural tone-deafness of such claims.

The judge ruled that her nick name was legal to use because someone daring to question the use of her nick name on offical documents was "rightly" recognised as "cultural tone-deafness"? Or in other words it was racist? Sure. Let's just ignore any concept of the rule of law in favor of a every shifting and nebulous polital correctness mantra.

35 posted on 12/02/2010 12:51:24 PM PST by Durus (The distance between us has grown, and I struggle to quantify it. Windage adjustments are done.)
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