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Originally Posted by Alphagamuga
This was the part I was trying to respond to. My impression, and it's a pretty dim memory, is that the resume screeners didn't know until it was pointed out what they had done, so they couldn't have declared what they were doing with relish and basked in it.
Sorry for being unclear.
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Most of the time, they know. They would have to be a twit to not know. They just say the don't to "save face" and look like they would "really never knew".
Besides that's a lame excuse and lip service. They will do cartwheels and dance around the really subject at hand and that is Black folks giving their kids funky sounding names because they want their children to be unique and never find little key chains for their names.
Besides, no body says anything when it comes to a polynesian name and it sounding different. Or an asian name and it sounding different from the average American "Joe". But when Black folks do it, for whatever reason, it is ghetto or not giving their child a chance, or demeans them, or ashe...
And we all Black folks know this. So maybe it is our way of protesting our only thing we think we can control as part of our creation--naming our children.
And hey, if that is not an American Truth, then I don't know what is anymore.
EFF cultural norms and mores. EFF all that. I protest.
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