[OriginalV]

With all due respect to this woman. I seriously doubt her daughter will be any less black just because of her name.

This country will do itself a favor once everyone starts thinking of themselves as AMERICANS. And not group themselves into catergories.

[OzGM]

I dunno about this rest of the people in the world but I never stopped and thought... DAMN that is a really black name. What is the world coming to and who had the bloody time to sit and study such a mundane topic to this degree?

[Ex-Dem]

Hey, it worked out alright for our NSA, didn't it :)?

[KC_Conspirator]

ON THE ONE hand, Goode and the child’s father don’t want their daughter “robbed of her ethnicity,” she said. On the other, she believes a distinctively black name could end up being an economic impediment.

So this is the way MSNBC covers up for yet another illegitimate child from an unwed mother? This is her third out of wedlock kid. This kid already is earmarked for failure because of the terrible odds created by its mother, no matter what the hell her name is.

[steplock]

The name is no matter - what counts in business - can you speak English clearly and correctly?

[Dialup Llama]

I can gar-dam-intee you that if you name your kid Jihad he ain't getting any job. (Yes Jihad is a first name.) Also if you want to boost your job prospects, avoid the face tattoos.

[Batrachian]

Most of these supposedly black names are made up out of thin air anyway. They certainly aren't real African names. Can anyone recite a real African name, anyway? Kunta Kinte is about the only one I can think of off the top of my head.

[annyokie]

No kidding. I gave my boys easy to spell and pronounce first names (germantic last name, often mispronounced) just to make their lives easier. Being "Bob" and "Joe" is much less of a burden than being "Antyoine" or ""Sheneequaah" let alone Ashleigh, Ashley, Ash-Lee, Ashlee, etc.

No lie: I had a friend who had two daughters named Cassiddy and McKenzie (WTF?). Had a thrd named Zoey, and then triplets named Dakota, English and (I can't recall her name.)

Barf. Why consign yourkids to a lifetime of spelling their names?

[Go Gordon]

This country will do itself a favor once everyone starts thinking of themselves as AMERICANS. And not group themselves into catergories.

It is the Democrats policy to divide the country into groups. Its easier to cater to people on a group by group basis (in return for their votes, of course). Otherwise, they'd have to implement policy to *gulp* benefit all Americans.

Old vs poor, black vs white, Big business vs the little people, Big Oil and Big energy vs environmentalists, Rich versus non-rich, union vs non-union workers..... did I miss any?

[1stFreedom]

Well, I would agree with her. What you aren't considering is during the screening process, the name can be a problem. The child may not be aware of it since they'll never make it to the interview in the first place.

On the same note, if you are 55 years old and looking for a programming job, good luck. Best thing you can do is hide it if possible. (Maybe keep your resume down to one page, this will help hide just how long you have been doing your job.)

There are things on a resume that will work against you. This woman is wise to consider such things in advance.

[jrherreid]

Hey, I don't have a problem.

www.blackpeopleloveus.com

[WackyKat]

With all due respect to this woman. I seriously doubt her daughter will be any less black just because of her name

No, but due to affirmative action policies, the daughter's resume will be much more likely to go into the "interview" pile if she has a name such as "Tawana" or "Kaneesha."

On the other hand, a white guy with the name "Thurston Howell IV " will be lucky to get a job as a janitor.

[jocon307]

I must quote myself from an earlier, but similar thread:

Lionel, the (former, where is he now?) Talk-radio personality, and lawyer, shared my concept. When you are naming your child you must consider the possibility that they will end up a Justice on the Supreme Court. Do NOT give them a name that will make them look foolish. Can you imagine if Justice O'Connor's parents had named her "Sandy"?

Here is a link to the thread (I'll try it anyway), it's very related to this one, and yet not a duplicate in any way:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/991223/posts

[Cacique]

ping

[cyborg]

Betraying her ethnicity... GIVE ME A FRIGGING BREAK. No wonder why the immigrants are steamrolling over many Americans born and bred here already. I agree with you about all of us being Americans.

[manic4organic]

You can give your kids names that are less common without being outlandish. There was a girl one year ahead of me in high school that already had a son named DePriest. She said she got the name out of the yellow pages from an auto repair shop. I think that in their attempt to be different, some blacks are subjecting their kids to ridicule for life. African names would be cool, but just making names up makes no sense to me. Anyone remember Orangejello and Lemonjello (pronounced Uh-ron-juh-lo and luh-mon-juh-lo)?

[Salman]

In fact, most African Americans have ordinary English names.

[solitas]

Aw he[ck] - just call her Vonnessa Jr. (sounds colored-enough to me): you've had your '15 minutes of fame', now just go away.

Could you imagine the 'outrage' if a Caucasian was in a similar article and was deciding on a 'White-sounding' name?

[longtermmemmory]

sounds like more of the false heritage fad of the 70's. It is tied to same thinking as the radical leftist professor who just made up kwanzaa and then decided it should be a paid holiday between Christmas and New Years.

I know of many Americans who claim ancestry from one place or another. They universally take pride in their "roots" but consider the USA their only home.

Some still like the idea the United States as the Great Melting Pot. We all get assimilated into the USA culture and beliefs but still keeping touch with the past. How can you know where you are going unless you know where you have been. Its odd but they also claim (as do many of my own family) the history of the USA as their own too.

Put it in perspective, ask the immigrants in question, if it is "old country vs the USA" which side would you serve. The right answer is for the USA. (no BS hollywood/leftist/democrat party "support troops" answer too.)

[TheWriterInTexas]

I went with an original name for our daughter. All of the family names on my father's side were German (Helga, Olga, Mathilda, Adeliade, etc.). All of the names on my mother's side were Irish or French (Grace, Lily, Mary, Maureen, etc.).

I named my daughter Skylar; sounds exactly like it's spelled (Sky-lar) meaning "scholarly." Her middle name is Elizabeth, after my sister. We call her "Sky" for short.

Since then, I've met several other Skylars. So much for originality...but the name suites her, nonetheless.

My son is a full blown Junior, Anthony Albert Jr., after my husband. The names are significant in another respect; my husband's father, who passed away many years ago, was Albert Anthony. So he shares his names with his father and grandfather.

[jwh_Denver]

This country will do itself a favor once everyone starts thinking of themselves as AMERICANS. And not group themselves into catergories.

Yeah just flush part of Martin Luther King Jr. greatest speech (judged not by the color of skin but by character) right down that spinning water thing.