You Go Sista! Sheila Jackson Lee says hurricane names are racist - I wanna help.

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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According to the esteemed Congresswoman from TX, Sheila Jackson Lee, “all racial groups should be represented in the naming of hurricanes”.

Before anyone claims I’m all wet or am blowing off about such trivial matters, I think she has a point. Back during the crusade to have male (as opposed to exlusively female) names used for identifying storms, I’ll bet an eye she was one of my allies in that hard-fought battle.

I’ve decided to return the favor and start the crusade to make hurricanes names as diverse as possible and call for an immediate reformation.

I don’t want to wait until 2007 - I want my diversity now! Here are some recommentations for the National Storm Center panel that makes such decisions

  1. Abu
  2. Baye
  3. Chiam
  4. Dusana
  5. Esha
  6. Fernando
  7. Giovanni
  8. Hershel
  9. Iggy
  10. Joe
  11. Kagami
  12. Leanna
  13. Marjani
    We usually don’t get more than 13 a year, so I guess I’ll stop here
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Your link takes me to an article titled WMD’s Not First Priority.

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Who cares, its just weather, jeez once again we’ve been hit by the ‘lets take political correctness one step further’ Hurricane
Name it whatever you want.

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Sorry, I guess I should have scrolled down. Here’s the relevant section:

I’m embarrassed to share a race with this woman. WTF does those names are ‘too white’ even mean?

J Christ.

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This is not too much of a surprise. Sheila is my Congressional Representative. She motivates me to vote.

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Why don’t we name all hurricanes after politicians?
They are just huge amounts of blustering wind.

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I named my dog “Sheila.”

She’s a good girl!

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Post of the day credits Bippy. I’m still laughing! Kudos

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Bolding mine.

I’ve known exactly three Wandas in my life, and all of them have been black women.

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And I thought that 25 years or so ago women were complaining that it was sexist to name hurricanes after women only

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Because only white women are named Wanda.

And there’s never been a man of color named Sam.

What the hell kind of drugs is this woman smoking?!

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English name = white person, apparently.

I was going to make a list in rebuttal, but it’s just pointless.

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She is saying that Sam and Wanda are names of Eurocentric, and thus caucasion, origin. She is not saying that they are white-only names.

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“Sheila?” Sound like one o’ them Jew names . . .

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Yes, because Shiela is SUCH a Black name, right?

And because her bitching about “Black names” not being applied to enourmously destructive forces of nature makes since, right?

And it’s not like there aren’t better things for her to worry about, like those pesky shootings on the Richmond strip that have been going on lately.

And besides…you know what? it really is pointless trying to rebut this. I’ll just reprint what I thought was an excellent hurricane name, as said on the radio this morning:

Hurricane Hezzie All Up In THe Hizzle, For Shizz

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-le.

Dang it.

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I got Ringo beat on this. Not only did I used to live in her congressional district, but her husband was my high supreme overlord (supervisor) for a couple years.

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Perhaps the Congresswoman has a complex caused by having the names of two Confederate generals in her name.

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  1. Loquetia
  2. Danae
  3. Lucreta
  4. Fatima
  5. Anthony
  6. Muhammed
  7. Cassius
  8. Xavier
  9. Juan
  10. Carlos
  11. Maria
  12. Luisa
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They’s best be havin’ yokel names too!

Hurricane Cletus, Hurricane Bubba…

Maybe some of the various Star Trek and Star Wars species should be represented too, lest an angry army of nerds in plastic pointy years storm Congress…