Do you think ghetto names really affect a child's chance in life?

[Apollo Creed]

Exactly. People talking shyt about those so called ghetto names, don't seem to understand that in many cases the people naming their kids that were trying to name their children something more in line with their cultures. A name like Tupac, Oprah, Shaqueille and Denzel; ain't supposed to sound like Bob or Jerry or Bill. The parents were trying to make a statement. I give them credit for it.

Yeah many of the names were African and Arabic influenced with a twist due to the unique experience of AA being blacks in America.

There is a reason why whites have always discouraged blacks from defning ethnic identities and tribes officially. Its kinda what the NOI and Moorish science Temple speak about without the magical elements.

 

[AuntAnniesPretzels]

My name is as white as it gets and there have been times where employers liked my resume, my availability lined up and everything yet they look like a ghost when they see me and I don’t get the job

Give your child a name that conveys blackness and help them be so great they can’t be ignored. AAs are as American as anybody so we don’t have to assimilate into shyt

 

[Fresh]

yes and no

but the bottom line is if you're Black your Black no matter what your name is

 

[FeloniousMonk]

I plan on being a successful man, a shining example of black excellence, but I want to name my son Demetric (Duh-Meech-Rick) or Kelan (Key-Lynn) & my daughter Saneilah (Sa-Nay-Luh) or Neidra (Knee-druh)

I know we hear of hood names affecting employment and the like, and I want my kids to start life on the right foot. My name is Swahili, but no one knows what it means, much less know any Swahili names so I get lumped in with the ghetto name crowd anyway

Other than Neidra...

Why are NON of the name spelled the way they are supposed to be pronounced?

How did you get meech from metric as long as vowels are concerned?

Where does lynn come from the suffix LAN?

 

[Samori Toure]

Yeah many of the names were African and Arabic influenced with a twist due to the unique experience of AA being blacks in America.

There is a reason why whites have always discouraged blacks from defning ethnic identities and tribes officially. Its kinda what the NOI and Moorish science Temple speak about without the magical elements.

The craziest part is that census records through the decades have shown that African American have always attempted to name their children something more in line with their cultures. I saw names in census records for African Americans like Malik, Omar, Bailey (which is really Bilali), Phyllis (used to be Filli), Kadeshia, and Fatima. Those were names used in Senegambia, Mali and along the Rice Coast. So people were trying to keep the names of their folks alive even though a lot of African customs have been washed away over the last 400 years.

Even names like Sambo, which is discouraged and considered racist now days is actually associate with a Hausa name or word; I am not sure which.

 

[Thegospel]

Raise your child to work for another man/woman brehs.

 

[BaldingSoHard]

I plan on being a successful man, a shining example of black excellence, but I want to name my son Demetric (Duh-Meech-Rick) or Kelan (Key-Lynn) & my daughter Saneilah (Sa-Nay-Luh) or Neidra (Knee-druh)

I know we hear of hood names affecting employment and the like, and I want my kids to start life on the right foot. My name is Swahili, but no one knows what it means, much less know any Swahili names so I get lumped in with the ghetto name crowd anyway

To answer your question, yes it affects your child's chances. The names you listed aren't "ghetto" though, they're ethnic.

 

[smokeurobinson]

Yeah many of the names were African and Arabic influenced with a twist due to the unique experience of AA being blacks in America.

There is a reason why whites have always discouraged blacks from defning ethnic identities and tribes officially. Its kinda what the NOI and Moorish science Temple speak about without the magical elements.

Exactly. People talking shyt about those so called ghetto names, don't seem to understand that in many cases the people naming their kids that were trying to name their children something more in line with their cultures. A name like Tupac, Oprah, Shaqueille and Denzel; ain't supposed to sound like Bob or Jerry or Bill. The parents were trying to make a statement. I give them credit for it.

OK but ya'll only telling half the story.

Ya'll know damn well there are some straight up made up names out there. Names that are just over the top and made up to sound "ghetto" not African. U lying to yaselves if u dont tell the other half of the story.

 

[Apollo Creed]

OK but ya'll only telling half the story.

Ya'll know damn well there are some straight up made up names out there. Names that are just over the top and made up to sound "ghetto" not African. U lying to yaselves if u dont tell the other half of the story.

Every name was at one point “made up”. Passing those “made up” names down is how it becomes something.

 

[King Poetic]

yes

i guarantee companies see applications and see the name Laquianta Adams or Devante Harris and they push them to the side

 

[Apollo Creed]

The craziest part is that census records through the decades have shown that African American have always attempted to name their children something more in line with their cultures. I saw names in census records for African Americans like Malik, Omar, Bailey (which is really Bilali), Phyllis (used to be Filli), Kadeshia, and Fatima. Those were names used in Senegambia, Mali and along the Rice Coast. So people were trying to keep the names of their folks alive even though a lot of African customs have been washed away over the last 400 years.

Even names like Sambo, which is discouraged and considered racist now days is actually associate with a Hausa name or word; I am not sure which.

Either way we have been conditioned to think European names = good names.

An American of any race will look at someone from another country with a non european name as having a “odd” name when that persons name predates the concept of America lol.

 

[NotAnFBIagent]

As far as giving your child the best shot at the world we live in
A more white or neutral sounding name is better

 

[Samori Toure]

OK but ya'll only telling half the story.

Ya'll know damn well there are some straight up made up names out there. Names that are just over the top and made up to sound "ghetto" not African. U lying to yaselves if u dont tell the other half of the story.

Maybe they just don't know much about African names and naming customs, but at least they try to connect.

Everything that Black people do is examined more critically anyway. White people name their kids Hunter, Moon Unit, Peyton, Kyle and stupid shyt like that, but nobody says shyt.

 

[Genos]

We live in a system of white supremacy (capitalism), white supremacy prefers assimilation so until this system is down. Yes

 

[ba'al]

yes

i guarantee companies see applications and see the name Laquianta Adams or Devante Harris and they push them to the side

So actually keeping our forefather's slave names would be beneficial than,huh?