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White People Subtly Reinforce White Supremacy When They Laugh at Black Names
« on: September 24, 2015, 10:08:44 PM »
i tried to come up with some funny title for this but couldn't beat the OP's version

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How White People Subtly Reinforce White Supremacy When They Laugh at Black Names


I haven't heard anyone make a joke like this for quite a while, so either it's not as common as it used to be, or I'm better about choosing who I hang out with than I was when I was young. Have you heard this kind of thing? Recently?

http://everydayfeminism.com/2015/09/white-people-black-names/

Make no mistake. This is racist behavior. We are emphasizing the otherness of an entire group of people to put ourselves over and above them.

It’s bigoted, discriminatory, prejudicial, and just plain not cool.

What’s wrong with black names anyway? What about them is so unacceptable?

We act as if only European and Anglicized names are reasonable. But I don’t have to go far down my rosters to find white kids with names like Braelyn, Declyn, Jaydon, Jaxon, Gunner, or Hunter. I’ve never heard white folks yucking it up over those names.

La-Sha. (la-DASH-sha)

I rest my case.

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1. You've never heard a white person laugh at a white kid getting saddled with "Aeshlynne"?

Maybe you don't know us as well as you presume to

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3. I didn't write this but I know the unusual spelling name trend you're talking about.

Edit: I also recall a few threads making fun of Sarah Palin's kids' names.

nice attempt at dodge.

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8. I agree that people make fun of white kids' names too

but only ones that are just plain unusual. Fairly common African American names get made fun of. Names as common as Skyler certainly, but Skyler isn't a more "normal" or common name than DeShaun. It's just more white sounding.

So I guess I agree with both of your points. Yes, people do make fun of some white kids' names too. But I agree also that the way black kids' names are made fun of is different, as you said "an air of otherness or outright racism."

They are about as African as Wicca is to ancient Druidic religion.

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10. Well that's a kind of class based discrimination

so it's really the same thing, but just a different type of oppression - classism rather than racism.

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14. I find stupid white-person names to be hilarious

Jayden, Brayden, etc, they all make me think of Raiden (a character from the "Mortal Kombat" video game) for some reason; creative spellings of existing names are kind of hilarious as well, honestly--my favourite is all of the godawful illiterate idiot butcherings of "Michaela", which is a perfectly fine name, but, NO, we have to spell it "Mikayla" or "Makayla" or "McKayla" or something, apparently. Protip: don't give your kids a name you don't know how to spell. "Skyler" is pretty bad, too; it's "Schuyler", and it's a Dutch surname. Whenever I see someone called "Skyler" I can only think "oh, you poor unfortunate child, I'm so sorry your parents were morons". (And don't get me started on "Neveah".)

ugh... you people are boring tonight.
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Re: White People Subtly Reinforce White Supremacy When They Laugh at Black Names
« Reply #1 on: September 24, 2015, 10:17:55 PM »
Maybe these white guilt addled primitives should just off themselves already.  It might help atone for the rest of us.
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Re: White People Subtly Reinforce White Supremacy When They Laugh at Black Names
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Re: White People Subtly Reinforce White Supremacy When They Laugh at Black Names
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Re: White People Subtly Reinforce White Supremacy When They Laugh at Black Names
« Reply #4 on: September 24, 2015, 11:24:52 PM »
Quote from: Maverick1987 on September 24, 2015, 11:21:10 PM
:rofl:

This link belongs in that DU thread...may be time to burn a mole

I'm tempted to post the whole bracket over there:



Although Shamus Beaglehole is absolutely hilarious, I really felt that Shitavious got robbed.

http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/name-of-the-year-2014-final-shamus-beaglehole-vs-chil-1562192899
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Re: White People Subtly Reinforce White Supremacy When They Laugh at Black Names
« Reply #5 on: September 24, 2015, 11:47:01 PM »
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If an American of average intelligence can't pronounce your given name, your name is retarded and your mama needs to be slapped for being a dumbass.

Good news, the intelligence of the average American seems to be dropping.  You might just get a job some day.
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Re: White People Subtly Reinforce White Supremacy When They Laugh at Black Names
« Reply #6 on: September 24, 2015, 11:57:59 PM »

     Golly, I wonder if the DUmp ever ridiculed a Palin's or a Romney's first name...
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Re: White People Subtly Reinforce White Supremacy When They Laugh at Black Names
« Reply #7 on: September 25, 2015, 12:03:59 AM »
My favorite was a school girl named Le-a.

Her mother was angry that teachers repeatedly mispronounced it.

She insisted the girl's name is pronounced Ledasha because "the dash don't be silent".
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Re: White People Subtly Reinforce White Supremacy When They Laugh at Black Names
« Reply #8 on: September 25, 2015, 04:19:30 AM »
Quote from: Maverick1987 on September 24, 2015, 10:17:55 PM
Maybe these white guilt addled primitives should just off themselves already.  It might help atone for the rest of us.

Yeah, as I recall, we were just recently chided in a (D)Ummiespew for getting all worked up about shit and that we should just go get ourselves lives and avoid what makes us angry.....

Or something......   ::)
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Re: White People Subtly Reinforce White Supremacy When They Laugh at Black Names
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Re: White People Subtly Reinforce White Supremacy When They Laugh at Black Names
« Reply #10 on: September 25, 2015, 07:11:04 AM »
Quote from: GOBUCKS on September 25, 2015, 12:03:59 AM
My favorite was a school girl named Le-a.

Her mother was angry that teachers repeatedly mispronounced it.

She insisted the girl's name is pronounced Ledasha because "the dash don't be silent".

Bhahahahahahahaha  :lmao:
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Re: White People Subtly Reinforce White Supremacy When They Laugh at Black Names
« Reply #11 on: September 25, 2015, 07:26:28 AM »
Quote from: dutch508 on September 24, 2015, 10:08:44 PM
i tried to come up with some funny title for this but couldn't beat the OP's version
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ugh... you people are boring tonight.

These folks have too much time on their hands.

I wonder how many of these faux-raged DU-folk have had a laugh or two at "typical" German names, like (Big) Bertha? Or "typical" Italian names, like Luigi? Or "Southern" US nicknames, like "Bubba"?

A year ago I might have pointed out Bill Cosby's past mockery of "black" first names, but I guess that wouldn't work too well nowadays.
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Re: White People Subtly Reinforce White Supremacy When They Laugh at Black Names
« Reply #12 on: September 25, 2015, 07:32:34 AM »
Quote from: BannedFromDU on September 24, 2015, 11:57:59 PM
     Golly, I wonder if the DUmp ever ridiculed a Palin's or a Romney's first name...

H-5 earned and given, and I gave myself a :thatsright: why-didn't-I-think-of-that frontal Gibbs-slap.

BTW, in re "Big Bertha" in my previous post, my Aunt's name was Bertha (though she was on the tiny side). My Dad's family was German (he learned English when he went to school, with help from his older sister and brother).
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Re: White People Subtly Reinforce White Supremacy When They Laugh at Black Names
« Reply #13 on: September 25, 2015, 08:22:44 AM »
If Proglodytes are to be believed...


...black people are the biggest pussies.

Fortunately, Proglodytes are not to be believed.
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Re: White People Subtly Reinforce White Supremacy When They Laugh at Black Names
« Reply #14 on: September 25, 2015, 08:31:46 AM »
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La-Sha. (la-DASH-sha) The dash don't be silent

I rest my case.

Let's not forget Shithead (pronounced Shi Teed)
or
Ashole (pronounced Ash ole')
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Re: White People Subtly Reinforce White Supremacy When They Laugh at Black Names
« Reply #15 on: September 25, 2015, 11:47:30 AM »
Quote from: BattleHymn on September 24, 2015, 11:13:45 PM
Ok, I'll bite.  Try not to laugh:

http://herald-review.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/shitavious-cook-gets-years-in-shooting-pleas/article_280e78cd-3b32-510b-a980-6ea4f33b9a49.html

 :rotf:  THAT made my day, and totally beats the offering I am going to make:

From an article in my local paper:

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City Manager Lydia Pettis Patton named Marketing, Entertainment and Tourism Department leader LaVoris Pace acting deputy city manager on Friday.

This is made all the better if you know that this city has been embroiled in controversy due to the Mayor systematically forcing out most of the white people on City Council and in various positions of authority, and replacing them with his African American cronies. Especially the recently appointed City Auditor, who has completed almost zero audits of anything, while enjoying a huge salary. I had to make this comment under the article:

Oh come on! Where are all the quips about the Citizens of Portsmouth now being able to wash the bad taste out of their mouths?

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Re: White People Subtly Reinforce White Supremacy When They Laugh at Black Names
« Reply #16 on: September 25, 2015, 12:13:07 PM »
Quote from: lastparker on September 25, 2015, 11:47:30 AM
From an article in my local paper:

This is made all the better if you know that this city has been embroiled in controversy due to the Mayor systematically forcing out most of the white people on City Council and in various positions of authority, and replacing them with his African American cronies. Especially the recently appointed City Auditor, who has completed almost zero audits of anything, while enjoying a huge salary. I had to make this comment under the article:

Oh come on! Where are all the quips about the Citizens of Portsmouth now being able to wash the bad taste out of their mouths?

From all of the years I spent in Hampton Roads, I can say without fear of contradiction that if the Seven Cities were to ever need an enema, Portsmouth is where they'd stick the tube.
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Re: White People Subtly Reinforce White Supremacy When They Laugh at Black Names
« Reply #17 on: September 25, 2015, 07:32:22 PM »
Quote from: GOBUCKS on September 25, 2015, 12:03:59 AM
My favorite was a school girl named Le-a.

Her mother was angry that teachers repeatedly mispronounced it.

She insisted the girl's name is pronounced Ledasha because "the dash don't be silent".

I would have pronounced it Le Minus A.   :lmao:

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Re: White People Subtly Reinforce White Supremacy When They Laugh at Black Names
« Reply #18 on: September 25, 2015, 08:09:48 PM »
We wouldn't laugh at the names if they weren't so damn hilarity inducing.  Seriously, unless you are a flaming liberal twat like Gwenyth Paltrow, who daughter Apple won't ever need a job, name your child something that won't convulse people, especially those wielding the almighty paycheck, into fits of mirth.  It's NOT white people's fault you idiots insist on naming your little innocent babies ridiculous things like Shewanna or Jablon or whatever diarrhea of the mind spills out onto the birth certificate.  BTW, Africans laugh at your stupid names that aren't at all black or African or well, let's just say I'd never ask one of you idiots to name a pet of mine, be it ever so humble.  Maybe if I were inclined to keep a pet cockroach.  Seriously, life is already hard enough on the young, why do you insist on burdening him or her with some made up crap name that will make your child a subject of mockery among anyone not similarly afflicted with equally dimwitted parents?  :bawl: The only roots you are invoking are the ones my cats might uncover while digging a shit hole for their latest offering to Mother Earth.
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Re: White People Subtly Reinforce White Supremacy When They Laugh at Black Names
« Reply #19 on: September 26, 2015, 08:13:46 AM »
I have a confession. My real name is one  of those "funny" names.

You can't imagine the pain of growing up with everyone laughing, or trying to hide their snickers, whenever I said my name.
Just think about it- moving to a new town, a new school, and a new church. Being a 16 year old kid at the DMV, 100 people in line behind me, having to say my name out loud to an old lady behind the counter.  It was awful.

Parents, please. Think before you name your babies. Do it for the children.

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Re: White People Subtly Reinforce White Supremacy When They Laugh at Black Names
« Reply #20 on: September 26, 2015, 08:44:47 AM »
Quote from: Big Dog on September 26, 2015, 08:13:46 AM
     - Haywood Jablome

[youtube]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cieFmcOqiUY[/youtube]

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Re: White People Subtly Reinforce White Supremacy When They Laugh at Black Names
« Reply #21 on: September 26, 2015, 09:02:40 AM »
I'd pronounce that SHIT-tay-V-us.....how close am I?
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Re: White People Subtly Reinforce White Supremacy When They Laugh at Black Names
« Reply #22 on: September 26, 2015, 09:05:00 AM »
Quote from: JohnnyReb on September 26, 2015, 09:02:40 AM
I'd pronounce that SHIT-tay-V-us.....how close am I?

I'm guessing your SHIT needs to be a SHY and you're probably right. 

SHY-tay-V-us  :-)
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Re: White People Subtly Reinforce White Supremacy When They Laugh at Black Names
« Reply #23 on: September 26, 2015, 09:07:59 AM »
Quote from: BattleHymn on September 24, 2015, 11:13:45 PM
Ok, I'll bite.  Try not to laugh:

http://herald-review.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/shitavious-cook-gets-years-in-shooting-pleas/article_280e78cd-3b32-510b-a980-6ea4f33b9a49.html
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Shit-tay-vee-us    emphasis on the first syllable: Shit

Yes black names are FUNNY. Laughing at them is not racist, but normal reactions to stupid names.
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Re: White People Subtly Reinforce White Supremacy When They Laugh at Black Names
« Reply #24 on: September 26, 2015, 12:32:51 PM »
In Naval Aviation the culture encouraged the "2 Tacan Rule".
When on "Det" our squadron name tags were often replaced with our Detachment name tag was worn.
Some of the best "Det" names on display...
Emmerson Bigguns
Pat McGroyne
Tug McGroyne
Ricardo Cabesa
Richard Gozinya
Hugh Geerekshun
Phil Asheeyo
Coy Tuss


But seriously folks.
Lets call black exclusion for what it is.
It's just like Jeremiah(I won't call him Reverand) Wright's black liberation theology.
It's voluntary segregation.
It's refusal to integrate.
It's refusal to assimilate into American culture and society.
It's a prideful and rebellious attempt to name their kids the most outrageously un American names as possible so that the kids can't blend in with their contemporaries.
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