Posted on 09/15/2014 3:34:00 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
"I heard what you said..."
What every happened to Edward, Peter, Paul, John, Michael, William, Robert and Matthew? The country started going down the toilet when people stopped naming their kids the age-old common names.
Probably in the list of “top ten words that sound dirty but aren’t”.
Gene Chandler is the Duke of Earl
In my many years walking this earth I have never met or seen a black girl named Madison.
At the elementary school my kids attend, one of the fifth-grade teachers is a black man with the first name of Christian. He was our son’s teacher a couple of years ago and we loved him.
Our younger son, who is autistic, had a black woman as an aide last name. Her name is Charity. Again, we (my husband and I, plus our little boy) absolutely loved her.
My older son’s reading teacher this year is a black woman named Sherri. At the alternative school in our district, the assistant principal is a black man named David (and we live in a town where over 95% of the population is white).All of these people are incredibly well thought of in the community and you would be hard pressed to find anyone who would say a bad word against them
I knew a couple of boys named Madison before that movie, no girls.
Yeah, get back to me when blacks start naming their kids Chip and Buffy.
Back in those days a number of people with Jewish, Italian, German, or Polish names anglicized them for professional reasons. In some cities with large Irish populations, I’ve read that Jewish or Italian boxers would change their names to an Irish name and even call themselves Irish Mike McBride or Irish Dan Malone. And of course, many people in showbiz anglicized/prettified their ethnic names i.e. Frances Gumm became Judy Garland.
“just pulling names out of the Scrabble bag”
Great line.
Heh.
One of the characters in _Unintended_Consequences_ had a comparable, albeit worse, name - always shortened to “G” and never would admit what it was. Gotta wonder how common such names actually are.
I'm a big Sarah Palin fan, but one thing that gives me pause about her intelligence is the names of her children. Not one of them has a traditional first name. And although black Americans are tops in giving their kids goofy names, white Americans aren't too far behind. Even some members of my family (brothers, nieces, nephews) have given their kids some goofy names.
I hate all these “soap opera” names. The only saint’s name mentioned in this entire article is “Katherine.”
Talk about under-educated: A popular name in the late 70s was “Jordache.”
Well put & observed. It’s not the name per se, it’s that the name is indicative of the parents’ mindset, which is passed on.
Another example of the divide being cultural, not color.
Ah, I’m not the only one who thought of that passage while reading this thread!
I think it’s a relatively new phenomenon. Back in high school in the 70s the black boys were named Charlie, Steve, Gregory, Brian, David, and Percy. The black girls were Regina, Sonia, Valerie, Yvette and Janetta. Not a one -shon, -isha or -iqua.
From now on I will answer those race questions with "native American." I was born here. That is what "native" means.
I am a native American.
A friend of mine became a third grade teacher in FL in the early nineties. One year during the first parent-teacher conferences in the fall, there was one conference where the mother stared oddly when he referred to her daughter as "Virginia - this," or "Virginia - that," etc.
Finally the mother declared, "Her name ain't Virginia, her name be VAGINA!" ("Oh. I apologize....")
True story.
I still laugh about a story my wife tells when she was student at Delta State. It was the first day of class and the teacher was reading names and having the students raise their hands. She said she almost busted out laughing when she got to a little black girl that her parents had named VAGINA. She said the teacher siad it out the way it is usually said, but the student said it is pronounced VA JEAN A. The teacher then told her from now on in class she was GINA.
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