Judge rules on naming of black children
Clitoria Tawn'E'Shia Schwartz
African-American community--and yet, give much relief to teachers
everywhere--a federal judge ruled today that black women no longer have
independent naming rights for their children. Too many black children--
and many adults--bear names that border on not even being words, he
said.
"I am simply tired of these ridiculous names black women are giving
their children," said U.S. Federal Judge Ryan Cabrera before rendering
his decision. "Someone had to put a stop to it."
The rule applies to all black women, but Cabrera singled out
impoverished mothers.
"They are the worst perpetrators," he said. "They put in apostrophes
where none are needed. They think a 'Q' is a must. There was a time
when Shaniqua and Tawanda were names you dreaded. Now, if you're a
black girl, you hope you get a name as sensible as one of those."
Few stepped forward to defend black women--and black women themselves
seemed relieved.
"It's so hard to keep coming up with something unique," said Uneeqqi
Jenkins, 22, an African-American mother of seven who survives on
public assistance. Her children are named Daryl, Q'Antity, Uhlleejsha,
Cray-Ig, Fellisittee, Tay'Sh'awn and Day'Shawndra.
Beginning in one week, at least three white people must agree with the
name before a black mother can name her child.
"Hopefully we can see a lot more black children with sensible names
like Jake and Connor," Cabrera said.
His ruling stemmed from a lawsuit brought by a 13-year-old girl whose
mother created her name using Incan hieroglyphics.
"She said it would make me stand out," said the girl, whose name can't
be reproduced by The Peoples News' technology. "But it's really just
stupid."
The National Association of Elementary School Teachers celebrated
Cabrera's decision.
"Oh my God, the first day of school you'd be standing there sweating,
looking at the list of names wondering 'How do I pronounce
Q'J'Q'Sha.'?" said Joyce Harmon, NAEST spokeswoman. "Is this even
English?"
The practice of giving black children outlandish names began in the
1960s, when blacks were getting in touch with their African roots,
said historian Corlione Vest. But even he admits it got out of hand.
"I have a niece who's six. I'm embarrassed to say I can't even
pronounce her name," said Vest, a professor at Princeton University.
"Whenever I want to talk to her, I just wait until she looks at me and
then I wave her over."
Cabrera's ruling exempted black men because so few of them are
actually involved in their children's lives.
HarryNadds
You mean you don't Takweeshia Jackson as the CEO of your corporation?
coop...@hotmail.com
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This is an Urban Legend. Check link: http://www.snopes.com/humor/iftrue/blacknames.asp
HarryNadds
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My all time favorites are Syphyluss and Vigynna.
Grendel
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Some of my favorites (actual names):
Shi'thead (4th grade student).
Latrina (mother was in the Army).
Octavious (father into comic books, the girl was 18, so before Spider-
man 2 movie)
DeFinest Blackman (4th grade student, different year).
Tom Sr.
<pilgriminabarrenl...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> The rule applies to all black women, but Cabrera singled out
> impoverished mothers.
It will be overturned for that alone.
-Tom Sr.
Tom Sr.
> This is an Urban Legend. Check link:
> http://www.snopes.com/humor/iftrue/blacknames.asp
I thought there was something clearly stupid about that "article".
The sentence "The rule applies to all black women, but Cabrera singled
out
impoverished mothers" was *clearly* unconstitution.
I noticed a number of the right-wingers though swallowed it whole --
again proving many of them have no even a basic understating of the
United States' Constitution.
-Tom Sr.
Tom Sr.
> Some of my favorites (actual names):
> Shi'thead (4th grade student).
Actually names as well, from working with library patrons for two
decades.
Faith Hope Charity
Alyson Wonderland
Battle Steel
Oh, by the way, these are white kids named by white parents.
-Tom Sr.
lora...@cs.com
Hahhahahaa..
This is one parody that should be repeatedly sermoned by the Racist
Reverend Wright.
Against my general distaste for additional governmental control, I
believe this is one instance where US government control should be
imposed...
The propagation of of bizarre clown names applied to people must be
prohibited for the good of the nation.
You walk hopefully into an emergency meeting regarding the rescue
restructuring of all of the pension plans for the company's
employees... And then then you are greeted by the speaker.. someone
named something like 'La-Squisha'...
HarryNadds
Still my all time topmost favorite is that highly
intelligient,handsome,white, young,lady killer named "Harry Nadds".
robw
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HarryNadds
Mr. and Mrs. Limbaugh for starters.Who names their kid robw?? Some
nappy headed crack momma? Perhaps you died at birth but the afterbirth
lived.
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Steven L.
> (DETROIT) In a decision that's expected to send shockwaves through the
> African-American community--and yet, give much relief to teachers
> everywhere--a federal judge ruled today that black women no longer have
> independent naming rights for their children. Too many black children--
> and many adults--bear names that border on not even being words, he
> said.
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> "I am simply tired of these ridiculous names black women are giving
> their children," said U.S. Federal Judge Ryan Cabrera before rendering
> his decision. "Someone had to put a stop to it."
You need to check the calendar application on your computer.
Today is 25 March 2008.
Not 1 April 2008.
You should have posted this story next Tuesday.
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Steven L.
Email: sdli...@earthlinkNOSPAM.net
Remove the NOSPAM before replying to me.
robw
You really are a f*cking asshole.
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Tom Sr.
OR better yet, why don't we have a officially list if federally-
approved names, like they do for hurricanes that are given at random
by the government to all children at birth! The actually names -- and
number of names -- would be assigned to each and every child born in
the United States!
(Personally, I think the states would have a very difficult time
legally proving that Naming was a state's right and not a federally-
controlled matter.)
That way, we wouldn't have to worry about Jane or John Smith, but
instead have Janet Elizabeth Cabot Harrison Smith and Jason Frederick
Grant Randolph Aaron Smith.
Or BETTER STILL, we could just switch to numbers for names! That way
we would *never* have to worry about people having the same number-
name at all *and* we could just use barcodes of our numbers for all
I.D.!
-Tom Sr.
Liberalism is a Mental Disorder
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Or better still, answer a simple question about your ignorance about
Venezuela's membership in OPEC, Mr. Tom Shit. Ripple.
Tom Sr.
<talkradiotruth...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Or better still, answer a simple question about your ignorance about
> Venezuela's membership in OPEC, Mr. Tom Shit. Ripple.
Mister. Mental. Disorder. --
Question. Repeatedly. Answered.
Beating. Dead. Horse.
*** YAWN!!! ***
-Tom Sr.