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Old 11-12-2013, 02:38 PM
 
Location: Georgia, on the Florida line, right above Tallahassee
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Black Names Are Ghetto? What About Nontraditional 'White' Names? - The Root

Travion or Shaniqua, Jake or Luke. What's in a name?


Freakonomics » Chapter 6

So does the name you give your child affect his life? Or is it your life reflected in his name? In either case, what kind of signal does a child’s name send to the world—and most important, does it really matter?

The shorter your name the higher your pay?- MSN Money

Heh, mine's 7 letters but I've been going by the 4 letter nickname forever. Seems a smaller name is easier to remember.

 
Old 11-12-2013, 02:41 PM
 
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If you have a four letter first name and are over 6' you makin bank baby.
 
Old 11-12-2013, 02:44 PM
 
Location: Suffolk, Va
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Black Names Are Ghetto? What About Nontraditional 'White' Names? - The Root

Travion or Shaniqua, Jake or Luke. What's in a name?


Freakonomics » Chapter 6

So does the name you give your child affect his life? Or is it your life reflected in his name? In either case, what kind of signal does a child’s name send to the world—and most important, does it really matter?

The shorter your name the higher your pay?- MSN Money

Heh, mine's 7 letters but I've been going by the 4 letter nickname forever. Seems a smaller name is easier to remember.
I also go by a shorter (3 letters verses 8) nickname, because people kept forgetting/mispronouncing my name. the funny thing is, my name is a solidly European name, though I am black.
 
Old 11-12-2013, 02:49 PM
 
Location: Great State of Texas
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As a substitute teacher I botch up more names these days when taking attendance.
I usually now apologize first before taking attendance.

After a while you get to know the kids and you don't have to try to say their name anymore.
"But you forgot so-and-so" they tell me.
Nope, he's sitting right there. I got him.

We have a good number of kids who's legal names are so long and hyphenated that they can't fill it in on the standardized score sheets.
 
Old 11-12-2013, 03:00 PM
 
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I don't think the writer is correct in her premise that people don't raise an eyebrow at names like Dweeezil or Skywalker.
 
Old 11-12-2013, 04:50 PM
 
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I don't call anyone's name "ghetto."

However, this is an easy call. You can still give your children unique names without stigmatizing them. Just stay within the realm of sagacity. It's not that hard.

Other than that, people make too big of a deal about the issue.
 
Old 11-12-2013, 06:21 PM
 
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very old news....

but yea, it's easy to tell if a person is black on a resume. No white person that I've ever heard of has named their kid Shaquira, Shaniqua, Trayvon, Demitrius, Cornelius, etc. If you see a name you never heard of, good chance the person is black.
 
Old 11-12-2013, 07:34 PM
 
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very old news....

but yea, it's easy to tell if a person is black on a resume. No white person that I've ever heard of has named their kid Shaquira, Shaniqua, Trayvon, Demitrius, Cornelius, etc. If you see a name you never heard of, good chance the person is black.
Two of my best friends have been named Cornelius and Darryl.

Damn. Wonder where they are. My friends. I should look them up tonight.

My friend Darryl once told me, "My grandma tol' me never to trust a white man." "White man is the Devil!" she said. " I should let her meet you sometime." He had an open mind.

Never close your mind. You'll miss too much.
 
Old 11-12-2013, 07:45 PM
 
Location: USA
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Mommas give some of their kids f_____d up names. I say that because I'm black lol.



To me, it honestly doesn't matter. I'd hire anybody no matter their name, race, sexual orientation whatever. If they could get the job done, they stay.


But yes. Some names do not help.
 
Old 11-12-2013, 07:51 PM
 
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my two best friends, philbert and eugene are black.
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