Black hurricane namesbrewing swirl of dissent

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

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

There's got to be a joke there somewhere because I see the names "Sven" and "Ole" (Lena is the smart one, donchyaknow).

[Barney Gumble]

They should name the hurricane depending on the strength.

Category 5: Arabic name. Hurricane Aisha. Hurricane Mohammed.

Category 4: White name.

Category 3: Black name

Category 2: Asian name. Hurricane Chang

Category 1: French name: Hurricane Jacques.

[Kelly_2000]

Hurricane T'Bone?

honestly can you believe this nonsense?

[Barney Gumble]

So Hurricane Oldrich or Hurricane Jaroslav?

[Hatteras]

Hmmm... If I suggest "black names" would I then be a racist for categorizing and stereotyping? But then, if I try and ignore this, hoping it would go away, would I then be a racist for being insensitive to "black issues"?

With that said, doesn't Hurricane Chantel make an appearance every few years or so?

[rabidralph]

Or Ruben.

[GoBucks2002]

I have a cousin adopted from Brazil, who is mostly Black (and probably part Native American), and you will never ever guess what her first name is:

Katrina. I kid you not. She is a junior in college as we speak.

[TheForceOfOne]

I don't know why we didn't just number them 1,2,3, etc. I fail to see the importance of naming them in any other fashion but then again, I didn't create the system and I don't really care what they name them either. Just make sure I know when it's coming my way and I'll be thankful.

[Mulch]

You seem to be the only one complaining. Your free to move to another article instead of continually posting to this one.

[WV Mountain Mama]

Sure! Hurricane Sieglinda, after my husband's grandmother. That's nice and fitting.

[television is just wrong]

lol, they just don't want hurricane laquitia

[reegs]

To make things even, how about interchanging awful, white names like Cody or Madison or Hunter...

[Eagle9]

I wonder how much of a storm of controversy that the name Jesus would create? You know, the Spanish pronunciation.

[brwnsuga]

My stripper name is "Roy Malibu"...
1. Name of first pet
2. Name of first street you lived on

[2001convSVT]

You got that right, although we retire hurricane names that cause great destruction and sadly the Carter name would be retired over the great destruction it caused in the late 70's.

[Red Badger]

You forgot, HARLEY............

[sassbox]

Tyrone (I think that one actually has been used)

Hurricane Tyrone devastated South Bend in the fall of 2002, fall of 2003, and fall of 2004.

[sticker]

They are naming them after sandwiches?

[SmoothTalker]

This is stupid PC liberalism run-amok. But they may win in the end. In thirty years Hurricane Pedro may be bearing down on the gulf coast, while Hurricane Alaysia is in the ocean, and Tropical Storm Shanice is just forming. Made-up names like that drive me crazy. When I volunteered with my churches programs for inner city kids, we got some of the stupidest names and spellings of names you've ever seen.

[Sally'sConcerns]

Besides being an old article this was already posted before back when it was current news.