'Black' hurricane names brewing swirl of dissent

World Net Daily ^ | August 3, 2003 | Joe Kovacs

[Batrachian]

You get the prize for this thread.

[SwinneySwitch]

She's right! Never thought I would ever agree with her on any damn thing! Need to ammend this years list PDQ to include Sheila, Jackson and Lee!;^)

[Mears]

Thanks for my second good laugh of the day!

Antwon!!!!

[WhatWouldReaganDo]

Might as well let her have her way - hurricanes aren't given names anyway.
Tropical storms are given names.

[Viking2002]

LMAO The sad part is, there's an entire constituency out there that keeps voting this ignorant pig into power. It would be fitting if Tropical Cyclone Noxzema wiped them all out.

[Alouette]

What, no Muslim hurricane names? Now that's discrimination. Somebody call CAIR, quick!

[gorush]

a distinction, obvious as it is, that has only hovered ethereally about my cranium...I thank you for providing an anchor.

[NCLaw441]

And, by the way, what IS a black-sounding name? Isn't Sheila Jackson Lee black? Her name is even spelled correctly. Now, Antwon, that would work.....

[YankeeinOkieville]

Okay, if we must include all ethnicities then couldn't we choose just one or a few names and keep repeating them. example: Guiseppe would be the 7th hurricane, Joseph would be the 10th, Yehosaphat the 25th...

[oldtimer]

Sheila Jackson Lee is a laugh, and I'll bet the hairdresser costs the US citizens $50,000 to braid up her 'hair'

I too almost fell off my chair when I saw this one...how about Excretia, La Tusha, Simian (yes there is a pro football player with that name), but we have to be politically correct you know. Gotta add Brucie to this list. LOL

[GreenHornet]

Hurricane Mr. T..........I pity the fool that gets caught in this storm!

[YankeeinOkieville]

When we have himmacaine #19 would we name it Shaun, Sean, or Shawn? Someone's not going to get to be represented. Hrumph, I am offended!

[southernnorthcarolina]

Interesting that Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee herself has a "white sounding" name. The phenominon of "black sounding" names wasn't around to speak of when Ms. Lee was born, and it will be, I suspect, short-lived. Call it racism if you wish, but a resumé with "Susan" on it stands a better chance of making the first cut than one saying "Laquisha."

Assimilation, folks. It works. More and more blacks will come to realize that.

[aBootes]

You know it used to be that hurricanes were named only after women because they were destructive and unpredictable.

Well, if we really want the names we give our hurricanes to reflect destruction and unpredictability, how about we name them after members of Congress?

[X-FID]

That's stupid good dawg!

[F.J. Mitchell]

So name a few hurricance Rastus, Saphire, Remus, Alphalpha, etc,, and make everybody happy.

Sheesh! Can't we all just get along?

[Riley]

Radio talk-show giant Rush Limbaugh says he was having dinner with his wife when he first learned of the proposal.

"I just threw up my hands. I said, 'Has it come to this now?'" Limbaugh recounted on his show.

Rush, don't eat your hands.

[SuziQ]

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee must have been elected for comic relief. There's never a time when this woman doesn't come out with something stupid to say.

Boy, isn't THAT the truth!

[Morgan's Raider]

OK. Second hurricane next year will officially be dubbed "Hurricane Buckwheat".

[x]

After the first "Black" named storm does any damage, there will be an outcry and charges that giving storms such names is "racist." There will be allegations that Whites decided that the really destructive storms would be named Lakesha or Janekwa and not Bob or Debbie, to stoke the fires of race hatred. Didn't feminists complain when the hurricane names were exclusively feminine?