# Living while black in America

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [July 9, 2018, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/living-while-black-in-america/817611 "2018-07-09T21:17:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2020, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/living-while-black-in-america/817611/1763 "2020-05-29T16:40:50Z")

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> [@Do\_Not\_Taunt](#):
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> Both naming traditions have reasons for them pertaining to sets of values, and they’re both ok

I’m not seeing that in this post.

> [@Name Discrimination: Who thinks this is OK?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-discrimination-who-thinks-this-is-ok/436001/40):
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> The thing about some of these people with odd names is that they are bad people. For instance I once had to work with a woman named Michelle. Okay, but it was pronounced MY-shell, and she had a shitfit if anybody mispronounced it, even if they’d never heard it before, like they ought to just know that it was pronounced MY-shell, not me-SHELL or anything else.
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> If it had been up to me I would have fired Michelle’s ass. Not because of her name. Because she was an asshole. Had nothing to do with her race. She was on the phone. People called and said, “Am I speaking to mi-SHELL?” and she would say, “No. You are speaking to MY-shell.” In a very snotty tone.
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> And that’s been my experience with a lot of people with odd, nontraditional names, so much so that now, they have to prove they’re worthy people if they start out with this name, rather than the opposite.

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