why do black people ........

[The Mind]

Quadrevion was the name of one of the boys found dead in that lake.


D'Brickashaw
LenDale
DeAngelo
Santonio
Tamba
DeMeco
Kamerion
Sinorice

All names of NFL prospects

Why do black people create such odd, weird names ?

[Champlain Islander]

Weird in your mind...Mind. Try thinking a little less!

[Charlie P]

White people don't create weird names for their kids?

[burniegoeasily]

They might find Bob, Hank, Fred, George, etc dumb. Its part of a culture they have to make for themselves in America since their original culture was striped from them. For the records, my bestfriend is named Micheal and he is black.

Kinda nit picky thread if you ask me.

[Ifly]

ORIGINAL: The Mind

Quadrevion was the name of one of the boys found dead in that lake.


D'Brickashaw
LenDale
DeAngelo
Santonio
Tamba
DeMeco
Kamerion
Sinorice

All names of NFL prospects

Why do black people create such odd, weird names ?

It might have something to do with the old time plantation names given to blacks..like Thomas Jefferson, George Washington..etc. and black people going back to Africian type names to get far away from those names.

[North Texan]

The view is always a little different on the other side of the fence.

[Canuck_Buck]

Here have some name ( not nose ) picking fun...

http://www.namesite.com/changename.php

My new name: Waiyaki
Pronouciation: WAI-yah-kee
Ethnicity: Kikuyu
Region: East Africa
Meaning: a great leader of the Agikuyu
Country: Kenya
Gender: Male

Just call me Waiyaki, the Great White Hunter....!!!

[RedAllison]

It's just a cultural thing and laughing at names it not anything personal IMHO, they laugh at ours just as much so I consider everyone even on that measure.

My wife taught elementary gradesin the our local public school system for 7 years. Here are some of the ACTUAL names of various students she had over the years:

LaQuarius
Dasheeka
LaQuintan
Octavious

LaCunta (YEP you read that right, it WAS a girl and her mother demanded that it be pronounced just like it looks. But the teachers just couldn't deal with that so they called her "LaCahnta" and the child didn't seem to care either way. Luckily with elementary kids they didn't have a clue, imagine what that girl went through in middle and high school. )

Sexily (YEP another one! And yes it was demanded to be pronounced as such, but again the teachers changed it and pronounced it as "Sesily" unless the mother was around.)

Montroyous
Demecia
Damarcus
Dumacon
Quintarious
Markalon


Can you imagine what those kids had to go through just having to learn how to spell their own names?

LOL I always heard about two black boys named: ORANGEJELLO and LEMONJELLO... an adaptation of the desert food.
RA

[mr4pt]

I knew a girl in Texarkana named Female (pronounced FEE-mah-lee).

Apparently, at the hospital the box next to female/male what checked as female.

[vc1111]

I tend to thinks its actually an interesting topic.

I would think that its more of a fad than a trend although its a fad that has picked up momentum.

In a way its no different than what the larger culture in America started about 25 years ago. I hear names from a variety of races that I'd never heard when I was growing up...Katlin, Kayla, Jasmine, etc.

As far as the names Blacks are choosing, they are definitely remarkable and have the been the target of a lot of newer famous Black comedians such as the Wayan brothers and Jamie Fox.