Not sure the author knows what on earth they are on about, because I have never met yet in the schools, at work etc blacks calling their girls names like Madison.
Most names end with sha or even names like Kevin are named Kevon.
Maybe it’s different up in NY and the upper class elitist the author hangs out with.
Le-a (pronounced “Ledasha” ‘cause the dash don’t be silent)
Yep, she’s clearly in the tiny subset of upper-middle-class, Ivy League attending, black professionals who want their kids to fit in in places like Andover and Exeter.
I don't know - after all, she did conduct exhaustive research at a Gymboree class...
Top 60 Ghetto Black Names
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCdmiZyyGjQ
The black students’ names I read off of the attendance roster in high school are almost without exception NOT names like Katherine, Priscilla, Susan, etc. They are LaShanda, Quaneesha, Imani, Taneesha, Quateesha, Daniece, etc. I have always thought that the newly-delivered mother must have looked out the window for inspiration, like reading what was written on the side of a delivery truck and deciding what a cool name it would be for the baby. It seems so long as there’s a Qu- in there somewhere, -sha or -ee- and it ends in an “a”, it’s OK. They don’t seem to have any correlation to actual “African” names coming from Africa.
And of course Antwon. Some people can’t spell and their kids’ names show their ignorance.
I work with engineers from Kenya, Ivory Coast, Uganda, and a few other places on the continent of Africa. Their names are George, Phillip, Charles, Robert, and a Miguel. They look quite puzzled when the locals here in Memphis are named, Keneesha, Shaniqua, L’aundre’, etc.... They were born and raised in African countries and the people there do not share this weird phenomenon. Maybe Nelson, Winnie, Desmond, Nissen, Nigel, but not the “Amafrican” made up names that black Americans are so eager to create?
Yeah, get back to me when blacks start naming their kids Chip and Buffy.