Only black people have weird names.

Okay then.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLQRhG1a9...

excellente

I'm not so much either.

Haha, they would have gotten legs. By the way, I have some photos for your perusal. I'll be sending them along shortly :-)

it was in our college bookstore-most of her non-fiction as well as fiction. but when I worked at the bookstore, I checked to see what professor(s) or class they were ordered for and there never was a specific listed. but they weren't returned at the end of the semester. if I had rip off one of those covers, well...

Nor in mine. I remember when I was little, seeing AS on my mom's bookshelf. I wish I could ask her what she thought. She read it when she was going to Pitt.

Yes khalling, but most of us seem to escape such ignorance and naivety before we reach the age of reproduction. The environment seems to promote and accept such things, and if you question the wisdom you are just asking to be attacked as prejudiced even though your intent is to elevate and educate. We all know somebody regardless of race who suffered playground torment because their name offered an easy target. Then the parents wonder why there is a self esteem problem… What there is is a parent IQ deficit…

ok, babies aren't born that way, either

Are you sure? The crapple doesn't fall far from the tree...as they say.

OA, they are naive about that. they think the word sounds pretty. youth, ignorance and inner city

ok, babies aren't born that way

cuz they ain't smart... or they used up all the nicer names with the first 12 kids they crapped out.

I have never understood why some parents would start their offspring with disadvantage of a name ripe for ridicule...

it was High School. I was an english major in college and can assure you Ayn Rand wasn't one of the authors taught at Iowa, at least in the English Dept.

...And now you know why my sister stopped being a NICU nurse....because of crap like that.

is it even ebonics?
my sister-in-law used to deliver babies in Kansas City and every now and then, she would have a young mother deliver and want to name her daughter after female body parts pronounced the way it's done in this sketch. She and the nurses would to discourage them. sometimes they succeeded, sometimes not

apparently. I have no idea. not a scifi buff

Ok, that song is now going to be in my head for the rest of the day... Lol!

That's funny! Cool that she took it on, and even potentially the Eng Dept?

A typical day in a Detroit public classroom? Ebonics 101! Humor always contains a kernel of truth...

I would have made my kid read all the fiction books and write a report.
my Kira did her senior paper on AS. however, she probably picked her theme from pink monkey or something. lol