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Originally posted by MsSweetness
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. "
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I see a lot of this. My kids go to a large high school that's 55% black, 40% white, and the rest Hispanic and Asian. So far, seven of my children have attended that school and although there have been many black students who got top honors, not one of those in the past 7 years has had an exotic name. They all had names like Whitney, Ashley, Morgan, and Taylor.
Most of the black students do have exotic names, though, and most live in the projects or nearby.
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