# Nearwildheaven, you're a racist piece of shit **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 2, 2017, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nearwildheaven-youre-a-racist-piece-of-shit/803303 "2017-12-02T04:51:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 47
**Author:** ![Omega\_Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7c8e57/32.png) [@Omega\_Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omega_Glory)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2017, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nearwildheaven-youre-a-racist-piece-of-shit/803303/47 "2017-12-03T01:07:06Z")
I tended to scroll past most of her posts because they were almost always pointless :eek:-littered secondhand gossip, but then she dropped the post below in a thread. I thought that was bad, but supporting the murder of a 14 year old? > [@Given names these days](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/given-names-these-days/798424/30): > > > [@Given names these days](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/given-names-these-days/798424/5): > > > > I guess I am asking the wrong question. > > Without any disrespect to African-Americans, the names I am asking about are the ones that in the last 25 years or so have surfaced with odd to me spellings and unknown origins. > > Some examples are- > > Jedeveoon, Bonquisha,Tanisha, T’a nay, Deshaun, Tayshaun, Deron, Rau’shee, Raynell, Deontay, Taraje, Jozy, Kerron, Hyleas, Chaunte, Bershawn, Lashawn, Sanya, Trevell, Sheena, Ogonna, Dremiel , and many others. > > “it is largely and profoundly the legacy of African-Americans,” writes Eliza Dinwiddie-Boyd in her baby-naming book “Proud Heritage.” Shalondra and Shaday, Jenneta and Jonelle, Michandra and Milika – in some parts of the country today, nearly a third of African-American girls are given a name belonging to no one else in the state (boys’ names tend to be somewhat more conservative). > > Why is this so ? > > Forget about ever getting a job with a name like that, assuming you stay out of jail long enough to ever apply for one. > > (well, it’s true) --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nearwildheaven-youre-a-racist-piece-of-shit/803303)._