From the article:
"What kind of parent is most likely to give a child such a distinctively black name? The data offer a clear answer: an unmarried, low-income, undereducated, teenage mother from a black neighborhood who has a distinctively black name herself. Giving a child a super-black name would seem to be a black parent's signal of solidarity with her community—the flip side of the "acting white" phenomenon. "
Does anyone agree with this? At one of my previous jobs, I dealt with A LOT of low income AA's and Latina's. To me, this statement is about 99.9% true. I certainly don't think these names are out of the ordinary, b/c I'm sure I know someone with every name on the lists. I just don't understand why it gets out of hand, like making up names that are impossible for others to pronounce (even though I know it's not about everyone else). Sometimes I would have to spell the child's name out b/c I didn't want to mispronounce it. A lot of kids were named after liquor and cars was common. One lady, I will never forget this, had daughters named Alize and Remy.
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