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Originally posted by Dedicated1
Maybe now people will think long and hard about the names they choose for their children! I swear I was in Wal-Mart one day and they paged an employee by the name of Tequila
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It's not so much as people will think longer and harder about the names that they chose. For me in general, Most of the educated AA's that I know that have children have, white sounding names, example, lauren, meagan, Christian, Leann etc..
Now my friends who only have a high school education(and are not goal oriented, and take life as it is thrown to them), they are the ones that have given their children the ridiculous sounding names. I have no choice but to shake my head and laugh,sometimes I am embarrassed for them, because I feel like, The NAME is what can at least, get their foot in the door. It's bad enough sometimes we don't even stand/GET a chance, AND NOW, before they can even get a good start, those children are already being discriminated by their NAME.
Name discrimination is not new to me, that was something I always thought about in HIGH SCHOOL. TO me, this article is just a way of letting us know that we are slacking. HONESTLY, this is really nothing new, it's been going on for years, I think the media, just finally thought about letting us in on something they thought was a secret
I'm just proud to say that my child's name, is already mistaken as a non African American name. At least I know, (and I planned it right), she'll atleast get call or be considered, (if the decision were to be based on name sake). My momma would've slapped me into the middle of the next year had I named my child bonquisha renee, or some alcohol beverage. Hell I couldn't even live with myself if I did.