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  • Open Editorial: You Named Your Baby WHAT???

    03/30/2006 12:41:35 PM PST · by twippo · 1,059 replies · 19,719+ views
    Onyx Magazine ^ | March, 2006 | Josephine Hammond
    Someone needs to sit our people down and have a healthy discussion about the names we as African Americans are giving our children. We are hurting our kids and putting their futures in peril from the moment they are born. That’s right, I said it. We are KILLING our kids and crippling their futures with the names we give them. Don’t you want your kids to get JOBS someday? Good jobs, and serious careers? With a name like Jaquez Ja’Quan Diante’, you’re dooming your sons to a life of drug dealing on some seedy street corner. Our Black men face...
  • What’s in a name? For blacks, a job

    09/28/2003 7:07:08 PM PDT · by OriginalV · 129 replies · 437+ views
    MSNBC ^ | 28 Sep 03 | Justin Pope
    BOSTON, Sept., 28 — When Vonnessa Goode gives birth in a few weeks, one of her first decisions could be among the toughest: whether to give her daughter a distinctively black name.