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Originally posted by AlphaFrog
I don't doubt that there are many. Like I said, I've personally never met one. The thing that had me  was putting on a list of names that "Almost Exclusively AA".
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I don't think it states that but for me and many of my Black counterparts, when we hear the name "Deshawn" for example, we typically can picture another Black person. When we hear the name "Tasha" our expectation is that we will see a Black female. The same with Jasmine even though I had a Hispanic student named Jasmine a few years ago, or was she a college classmate? I forget. Or maybe it was both.
We know that these names are not EXCLUSIVELY Black names, but there is a predominance that the names listed above and a few others are typically Black names.