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LOL...Farnsworth Bentley is a stage name for the singer\rapper. He also goes by "Fonzworth".
His real name is Derrick Watkins. He picked a name signifying uppercrust wealth.
Billups, no idea where he got his name. Always liked the guy but not enough to find out.
Letitia is an old name, in fact I think there was a first lady from the 1700s with that name
There's a black lady named Lucretia and she owns a very successful perfume business online. Additionally, there are quite a few middle class white women with the name Lucretia
But why so much content for lower class people though?
No one HAS to give their child a lower class sounding name. You can be poor as dirt and give a child a normal sounding name that he or she could put on a resume.
Standard names aren't black or white, anyone can have a name like Susan, Michelle, William, Al, Martin.
Jaleel White did have to work twice as hard as other young actors in his acting career, but it paid off in his role as Urkel on the early 90s hit "Family Matters"...
I guess we will have to agree to disagree. But yes Darius is on the list on "normal" black names. The problem with the list of name that I created is that they already existed before they started to become popular black names. Now they are subject to the same scrutinizing that the Sha, La, and De names are. I wonder if we (black folk) all called ourselves Bob or John (something similar) how would the naming landscape look today.
My name isn't common at all and I never had a problem getting employment.
Disagree that white sounding names get more job offers. My sister has an African American name and she has gotten plenty of job offers. She has a Bachelor's Degree. Most employers go by experience.
So then you are admitting there is no problem, there is no racism.
Having a very unusual and ghetto sounding name doesn't end up hurting one's job chances so all is fine.
This is all about exclusion of the lower classes or the wrong skin color. For some human beings, they don't feel right if they aren't trampling on someone else. They need social outcasts, they need the "other" so they can feel apart of something. Feel good about themselves.
Also, oftentimes powerful people use the fear of the other to control people. You don't want us out of the way because those people will take over if we aren't here to stop and control them.
It is a very sick manner of thinking, but unfortunately it is a very common way of thinking.
The problem is -- you as well as everyone else does it. If you see a name without seeing the person, you will form a vague mental image of that person.
You're all talking about Shaquisha being a name that makes someone think of a black girl or woman, but what if Shaquisha turned out to be a white man? Boy would you sure be surprised.
And that's because you're sexist as well as racist.
I guess we will have to agree to disagree. But yes Darius is on the list on "normal" black names. The problem with the list of name that I created is that they already existed before they started to become popular black names. Now they are subject to the same scrutinizing that the Sha, La, and De names are. I wonder if we (black folk) all called ourselves Bob or John (something similar) how would the naming landscape look today.
So names like Lucretia or Letitia (european name a lot of white women have) is much more acceptable than Tanisha (common African American name)? They both have that eesha sound to it.
You are aware that Lucretia and Letitia are Roman in origin, I trust?
Imagine a resume comes across your desk and the applicants real name is Moon unit zappa. What's your reaction? lol
If I ran a dental floss ranch, my reaction would be: "Hire her, NOW!".
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