lightless_shado
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Himuro said:I'm sorry this thread isn't as awesome as the last one. I dunno what to do with it aside from bring up different topics in black culture.
Hey man its an alright thread. It will come into its own. There are a lot of things we can talk about. I'll keep posting in here as long as there are people bringing up interesting topics.
You know it seems to me that the last people to be giving their children such names would be the poor. I mean what is an employer going to think when he or she sees that name? I think its especially problematic for black people because one could immediately guess that a person is black based on their name and a possibly racist employer will just skip the person altogether. Latishiqua could actually be someone with a very strong work ethic and high aspirations.Manmademan said:Pick up "freakonomics". there's an entire chapter based solely around why Parents seem to give kids names that are either nonsensical or detrimental in the long run.
there's an excerpt of it http://www.slate.com/id/2116449/
the short story is that lower income and lower educated parents of all races have a habit of making extremely poor name choices- black parents in particular choose "unique" names out of a sense of solidarity with the community and/or pride in one's roots.