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According to Wikipedia, the name Keisha is derived from Kezia - which is a Hebrew name. So the girl's name did not connect her to her AA roots, and the bullying may have in fact been rooted in anti-Semitism.
People always tell me "you sound different on the phone." When I show up. I kind of like having the name I do an having what I call an "excellent" phone voice. I don't know if it (my name) has given me any benefits in the job market, but I remember reading about a lady who changed the name on her resume and marked herself as "white" on monster.com and how she got a ton of call backs after she had been trying to get a job for months using her "black" name. That person didn't show up for the interviews. I would have and if they wouldn't have interviewed me I would have sued them because I'm just like that and wouldn't take that mess.
And like another poster mentioned, I don't even consider Keisha a "black name." I knew a white "Kisha" growing up, pronounced the same. I knew 2 white Chante's (one was spelled differently, but pronounced Shan-Tay). The most popular names in my era were Jennifer and Heather and I knew a ton of black and white Jenny's and Heather's. I was so happy I was not one of them. Amanda and Amber were popular too.
All of my brothers and sisters have rather traditional names due to being named after family members. FWIW, my grandmother's name was Florence and she hated it, she was named after her grandmother. I considered naming my daughter Florence, but didn't because my grandmother hated it so much lol. I know a lady now in her 60s who is named "Mamie" and she really hates it. She was named after her grandmother and considers it "an old lady's name." LOL even though she is nearly 70 years old.
The problem was it was "an old lady's name" even when she was 7 years old!!!
LAtrine or LAtrina................cherish the diversity of those names!
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