watching that FB car fight and seeing the names in the facebook feed....

c'mon.

I know people will say I'm coonin but it really doesn't help a child when you name them La'Kraysha

discuss.. or don't.

and for those who think it's acceptable, did you name you child something challenging or nah?

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names like La-A (pronounced La-Dasha) are just fine.

My question really being I'd imagine it would be a lot tougher for a La-Anything to make vertical progress in just about any workplace. I'm also not shitting on reception work, just saying that might be the cap when you carry that name or one's like it.

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and a couple of other sources. That said, I don't think "black names" speak to my heritage, mostly because they haven't been used widely in my family. I chose to give my children fairly Anglo first names and Korean middle names. (I have a very Anglo first name and Swahili middle name).

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name makes them pre-disposed to acting a certain way?

i gave my kid a fairly normal name tho

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I also watched it on Netflix. Not sure if I agree with all of it BUT we all know that people have biases. We cannot take the bias out of people, we can sometimes duck and dodge it lol

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fuck you.

http://www.livescience.com/6569-good-bad-baby-names-long-lasting-effects.html

"other peoples expectations" and the biases that we all know exist are wrong.

Even though it is wrong, I wouldn't ignore it if I were a parent. That is just me though, and I am not a parent.

I will also add that my name is very common. Soo common that I could not go by just my first name until adulthood. I was always "my name" plus the first initial of my last because there were always so many other "my names" around. I hated that!

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more important IMO is the kid's experience getting through years of roll call in elementary and high school. i'd want to be sure i don't give them a name that would result in easy jokes made at their expense.

fuck you.

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because im a fan of what they do.

now I gotta turn that off.

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And what's wrong wit La'Kreysha, or whatever name you pulled out the hat?

sounding names have a less chance is getting called back for a job than "white" sounding names that also have a felony on their record.

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but even if they're true...we can't lay down to racist assholes by declining to name our children as we see fit b/c racists are going to use the name against them.

fuck you.

You know beforehand the kid is likely to have a more difficult time in life with a certain name (I know you don't quite believe the research in this area, but for the sake of argument just accept that it is correct).

Are you going to put his/her future on the line so that you can stand up to the assholes today?

>but even if they're true...we can't lay down to racist
>assholes by declining to name our children as we see fit b/c
>racists are going to use the name against them.
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>You know beforehand the kid is likely to have a more
>difficult time in life with a certain name.

i don't know this as related to this discussion. my main concern as related to this topic is avoiding a name that'll cause problems when my kid's name is called during 6th grade roll call.

>Are you going to put his/her future on the line so that you
>can stand up to the assholes today?

yup. i am. if i want to name my kid ___ i'm not going to avoid doing it b/c racists might react badly to the name. fuck racists. if anything i'd be sure the kid is aware there are racist assholes out there who will try and diss him b/c of his name. but i'm not going to change his name b/c of them. that's terrorism.

fuck you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucretia_Mott

Lucretia/Lucrezia is a pretty traditional aspirational Latin name from the same root as "Lucrative".

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also Condoleeza is one of those black southern country names, white folks don't generally have the same level of prejudice against those.

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The name Condoleeza was supposedly coined from the Italian musical term "Con dolcezza" meaning "with sweetness."

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TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*

But maybe your vodka habit will.

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He might not get chosen out of a pool of 30 on Monster but if a solid member of the company says "My friend Jon Q has alot of experience with that system. You should give him a call", HR might raise an eyebrow as they try to type his name into the payroll system, but they'll get over it.

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As in:

"If you don't have no english name, massa ain't gon hire ya!"

Name them the wildest, most Blackety Blackest ghetto name you can come up with,
and then teach them to be enterprising. Hell start a business they can inherit.
We need successful Black folks named Taquandiniqua and Dequantavius.

If all the successful and responsible Black folks have a "white" name, then hell we're
helping perpetuate this myth that that part of our culture is negative. It's just a name,
and I'll be goddamned if I CONDONE you discriminated against me based on it.

We cannot allow ourselves to be defeated in these kinds of ways.

Same goes for dredlocks and afros... even tho that's kind of another issue.
Same basic concept concerning defeatism tho (be more like white folks and they will love you
and let you get ahead). Fuck that, we's free now! They should not still be being
beat into submission. We have the ability to set the terms of our acceptance in some ways.

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I thought one of y'all would at LEAST try to bring up Quvenzhane Wallis but #Noap.

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i do too. names have meaning and to me that's important.

for example, when my wife was pregnant with my son we considered the name Jacob. looked up the meaning and it means "supplanter, underminer, heel catcher" as far as the Biblical meaning anyways. well, we decided that isn't what we wanted as a name to represent our son. and no offense to anyone named Jacob, just using that as an example. i say all that to say it goes beyond even just being creative with spellings etc. to me. names have meaning and, in my opinion, that should be taken into consideration.

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which does have real consequences for people's lives.
Should you be able to name your kid whatever the fuck you want and have it not affect their outcomes in life? Absolutely.
White supremacy doesn't allow for that though.

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If someone steals your car radio (people do still steal car radios. How you think I got this coat?) because you left it unlocked, it's not YOUR fault. That said, I understand why people lock their cars. Now a real committed theif isn't going to care if your car is locked or not, he's going to steal your shit. And a real racist isn't going to hire your black ass if your name is Warren Worthington III, but I understand why some people would want to make thieves and bigots work a little.

if white ppl can make up whatever names they want for their kids, we can to.

white parents name their kids what they want.

i will to, if i have them.

At a previous job, I had a fellow department head tell our president that I scared her and made her cry when I got mad at her. Our president, also a white woman, said that she was sure that I'd behaved professionally, but I could be threatening just by virtue of being me.


You mufuckas seen my instagram. I'm the least threatening dude alive. So yeah, I ain't crossing the street for white women. That's their baggage, not mine.

> I could be threatening just by virtue of being me.

>yeah, I ain't crossing the street for white women. That's their baggage, not mine.
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The bigot you mention in reply 23. That bigot could not hire you.
That white female bigot could get you jailed or whatever.
What's the difference?

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just like it's thief's fault, even if you left the door open.

to not cross the street for white women?

I'm asking what the difference is in "leaving the door" open in that instance
as opposed to "leaving the door open" with your name.

It seems that you're saying it's best to concede to bigots in one instance but not the other.
Maybe I'm understanding you wrong, and you're saying that you never concede to bigotry, at all.

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The lock might help me. Crossing won't.

Is that akin to crossing the street or locking the door?

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