Oh, this can be fun!
Let’s see…my guesses are Seamus, Pierre, Stanislaw and Gallium.
I’m right, aren’t I? I know I am.
gobear, although I appreciate it, I don’t want your apology. Really, and I’m not being a smart-ass, either.
You can buy me these, though. They’re even on sale…
I believe we should return to the issue at hand, so I will ask it outright:
**Tarpal[b/] How many people from a race different from white have you hired? Do you think white people are more suited for a job at your company than black people because of their background and that, therefore, their personalities will have been better shaped for the job?
Upon examining his posting history, I guess you’re right.
I know JuanitaTech covered this with you already, gobear, but I just wanna say something.
Believe or not, most times people choose names not because of where they come from, but because they simply like that name. It’s clear you think “Shaniqua” is a dumb name, but many people apparently think it’s cool. I don’t think it’s a bad name myself. To me, it’s no more “ugly” than Allison, Jamie, or Heather as far as names go.
Why do you think choosing a name like “Shaniqua” is any more lazy than choosing a name like those mainstreamed names I listed above? Do you really think the average parent does major research when they’re picking out names? No. Your use of “lazy” is very irksome here.
I have a sister-in-law named Keisha. Keisha is a perfectly wonderful name to me. It’s not ghetto (in fact, my sil comes from a well-to-do family) and it’s not ugly. It’s a name like any other. Were her parents lazy for choosing Keisha over Kelly or Karen? Why or why not?
Did anyone read the article I linked to on the original thread, showing that resumes with “black” names are routinely put in the trash even when they are 100% identical to resumes with “white” names? This is the kind of thing that bugs the shit out of me. According to the article, the names didn’t even have to be “made up”. Names like “Ebony”, “Aisha” (a real African name, btw), and “Tyrone” were negatively discriminated against.
Names like Yolanda, Tonya, Lawanda, Leticia, Cedric, and Damon are common in the black community. These aren’t goofy “made-up” names by any stretch of the imagination, and it’s scary that mean people like tarpal would attribute negative qualities to people with these names just because they aren’t as common (or white-sounding) as Jason, Robert, or Britney.
One thing can be said: It takes MAJOR balls admitting that you’re a racist on a GQ board…and being completely unapologetic about it!
Naw, 'cause Tarpal said:
**No messing about with “code words”–he’s flat-out talking about Blacks and “African names”.
He’s taking his cue from Lott.
Slight hijack:
My cousin named her daughter Kitiara and I’ve always wanted to name a girl Chrysania.
I stupidly suggested “Ophelia” when the SO and I were kicking around names for our soon-to-arrive young’un. I just thought it was a pretty, poetic, classical-sounding name.
What never occurred to me, but the SO was quick to point out, was how much torture the kid would suffer in school as a result of a name like “oh-feel-ya”. Guess my mind just doesn’t work that way.
You are still not getting it. Black parents do not give their children unusual names because they are African sounding. They give their children names that are African-American sounding. Do you not understand that there is an enormous cultural gap between a person who is born in say, Nigeria, and therefore has a Nigerian name, and a person whose great-great grandparents were brought to the U.S. as slaves, and who therefore has a name reflecting African-American culture, much of which is based on slave tradition, Southern tradition, Christian tradition, Muslim tradition, and the tradition of being creative and different from white America?
Do you not see the implication of denying the significance of the African-American experience in America, or the uniqueness of African-American culture?
African-American is not equal to African.
Hmmm…what about Caroline, Adelaide, Matilda, Adelicia, Eleanor, Berengaria, Isabella, Marguerite, Philippa, Joanna, Catherine, Margaret, and Henrietta Maria?
JuanitaTech said in response to MrMyth
Damn girl! You guessed 3 of the 4 I was going to. Seamus, Pierre, Stanislaw, and Silver would have been my guesses. I guessed Silver because I knew a boy named Silver in grade school.
Both of you, what’s wrong with Raistlin? Or Flint, Tasslehoff, or even Fizzban?
I think you are comitting specism! Even though Raistlin was a human…
Well you may be pleased to know that, if we ever have children, Washte and I decided that we would give any daughters an Indian name and sons a Romani name.
Now I can’t promise we’ll use a name like Crazy Horse, but I’m gonna start lobbying for ‘Mildly Potty Libertarian’.
I like the names Ophelia, Victoria, Anastasia, Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Larissa, Rose, Rachel, Ramona and Guinevere. I like Russian names.
A lot of Russian names have numerous pet names then-it’s pretty much custom. So Tatiana becomes Tasha, Tanya, Tatia, Tata, Tata, Tatushka, Tatinka.
Or Anastasia=Nastia, Nashka, Nastenka, Natasha, Naska, Ana, Anushka, Stasia
Anna=Anya, Anushka, Anala
Maria becomes Masha, or Mashka. Nicholas would be Nickolasha. Mikhail is Misha. Alexander-Sandro, Sasha.
BTW, I knew two people named Damon. My best friend in high school-her dad was named Damon, and so was her baby brother. And they were white as snow. I also worked with a black guy by the name of Johnny.
A rose by any other name…etc…
(says Kathleen Mary Brenda)
I’ll only give my younger brother’s, since dorkusmalorkusmafia was so close.
Sterling.
The rest, JuanitaTech are much simply than you think.
Oh well. First bunch of errors, all in the same post…
should be dorkusmalorkusmafia and simpler…
I do understand that; it’s a point I have made on this board many times before. But when you say that "You are still not getting it. Black parents do not give their children unusual names because they are African sounding. They give their children names that are African-American sounding, " you make an excellent point that dsoes not necessarily apply to all African Americans. I have had one black woman tell me that she named her child LaChandra because “it came from the motherland.” Granted, it’s only anecdotal evidence which isn’t worth much, but there is at least one exception to your thesis.
Are you…? No, you can’t be… But your first name’s a traditional Irish name… Yes, you must be…
You’re Shannon Sharpe, aren’t you?
The basic point I’m trying to make, gobear, is no matter how dumb you think that girl is, you shouldn’t show it. Go ahead and fight ignorance - lord knows she might need it.
But is every black person like this girl?