How old are you? I've worked with very capable people with similar names. What you said is just racist. Period. By the way, if she were good, I'd use an accountant named Ja'eisha. What of it?
You said: How old are you? I've worked with very capable people with similar names. What you said is just racist. Period. By the way, if she were good, I'd use an accountant named Ja'eisha. What of it?
I am not sure you have read all of the posts on this. I am 47. What I said was NOT racist. The posts have referred to names given to children by all kinds of people, including, for example Gwynneth Paltrow, who named her daugher Apple. You are correct that a person's ability is not determined by her name; however, perception means a lot, especially in professional and business circles, and names like Ja'eisha and Apple and River do not evoke the kind of professionalism people seek in accountants, for example. I am not saying it SHOULD be this way, only that it IS this way. And given that this situation exists, why would a parent inflict it upon her child?
I have no qualms with who anyone uses as an accountant or anything else, but if you think that an accountant named Ja'eisha will make as good an INITIAL impression as the same person if she were named Regina or Elizabeth, you are, in my opinion, mistaken.