Memories of Ignorance
Posted by Bossip Staff
Bigotry 101 must be on the roster at this high school in Covina, CA:
A high school in Covina is considering reprinting yearbook pages that included offensive phony names for members of the Black Student Union. The yearbook handed out earlier this month carried names such as “Tay Tay Shaniqua” for nine Black Student Union members. The principal says students put phony names in the yearbook proofs and failed to correct them before printing. Some students were offended and demanded the books be reprinted.
Other phony “ghetto” names included “Crisphy Nanos” and “Laquan White”
School ended about three weeks ago, and authorities said the names were discovered only after the yearbooks were handed out. “It’s upsetting. It’s a mistake that should not have been overlooked.”
Students were given printed stickers with the correct names to put into the yearbook. Some of the BSU members and their parents disagree and want the books recalled and reprinted. Toi Jackson told the Tribune that on the last day of school, her daughter was given a handful of stickers and told to pass them out to her friends. “How humiliating,” she said. “The school is responsible, and they ask the victim to pass out the stickers.”
That ish is ignorant, pure and simple. Those students need to demand some serious reparations for this stunt. SMH.
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Well, lets not front, some of those are real names, sadly.
wowsers
Wow! Whadya mean “considering” reprinting?
Whadya mean “students put phony names in the yearbook proofs and failed to correct them before printing”
Whadya mean “Students were given printed stickers with the correct names to put into the yearbook” STICKERS?!?!?!?!?!?!!!!!
All this is straight BULLSH*T. New yearbooks please.
@ Re….so true….but damn, they gotta p***** out their own stickers???
@Lauren
I know, right? *****s. I say we run up on the main office
**grabbing pitchfork and lanterns**
“Follow me!”
Tay Tay Shaniqua, LMAO!!!!!!
This happened in Texas a few years ago. An honor student’s name wasn’t printed, they left it as, “Black Girl” because the yearbook staff didn’t know her name.
What happenened to teaching kids how to proofread? The yearbook printing company didn’t know probably, but the kids and teacher/yearbook staff editor could have caught this.
@Re,
OK I do admit knowing people named Quesadilla and Shimmer, but dang STICKERS?!?!?!?!!!
we still need to stop naming our children silly names. blacks and whites alike.
@Re (Going to Ethiopia and there’s nothing you can do about it.)
You’ve been cracking me up all morning!!!!
smh @ the blatant racism in 08…wow
@Acacia
Lol, I don’t know what got into me. This new hairdo has my feeling confident this morning…
That’s kind of funny.. but what’s even funnier is that I’ve run into some white people with ghetto names. I work with two white chicks named Felicia. How strange is that?!
@Aunt Viv
QUESEDILLIA? L-O-L
BLK PPL NOW ARE SOOO PUNKISH NOWADAYZ…..WE WOULD JUMP ALL THEM *****Z AND SCREAMED WHILE BEATING THAT AZZ “TAY TAY SHAQUINA” HUH?…HUH?… AND BE STOMPING THE ***** OUT THEM BYTCHES…MAN UP PPL!
LMAO, Crisphy Nanos!!!
That’s sad and disheartening this day in age
The people who are finding this funny are idiots!
The kids who did it thought it was funny…and IT WAS NOT…it’s blatant racism for sure! SMH
Hopefully they print new books for the school and nothing goes to the yearbook publishers until it’s been properly proofread!
@-MZ_D-
THIS IS FUNNY AND YOU KNOW IT!
glok9n is a perfect example of “When keeping it real goes wrong.” Or just a fakea$$ internet gangsta.
The boys from Jena “stomped the ***** out them bytches” and look how well they made out.
Being black in America is hard enough, why add being stupid to that list.
The reason we have more young black men in jail than college is that too many “kept it real.”
That’s kind of funny.. but what’s even funnier is that I’ve run into some white people with ghetto names. I work with two white chicks named Felicia. How strange is that?!
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Felicia is a white name…or even a spanish name.
Felicia is not a “ghetto name.” I doubt women in Argentina are also called Shaquonda.
And is it racist when every black comedian calls every white girl “becky” or “amy” or talks like “Oh Muh Gawd” ?
Ignorant yes; racist? Not so sure. We should try avoiding behavior that gives bigots (and ignoramuses) ammunition.
@COMMON SENSE! NAW IM NO NET GANGSTA NEVER SAID I WAS…. IM JUST THINKING BACK WHEN REAL *****Z LIKE ME AND MY GENERATION CAME UP WE DIDNT PUT UP WITH WHAT BYTCH NIGGRZ LIKE YOU PUT UP WITH …..*****GIT! SPEAK ON THE TOPIC AT HAND AND STOP GETTING YOUR JOLLIES OFF TYPING MY NAME!
dead dead dead…Tay Tay Shaniqua
The meaning of the name Felicia is Happiness
The origin of the name Felicia is Latin
I guess this would not be considered ghetto.
All the chicks that I had ever met before named Felicia were all hood chicks… I had never met a white Felicia until a couple years ago…. so I was just saying….
LOLOLOL
glok9n is some 13 year old white boy in Iowa living out his 50 Cent fantasies….
Listen son, take off you G-Unit PJ’s and stop staring at the poster of Fiddy’s bare chest on your wall.
If you keep up your “gangsta” posturing, you’ll have plenty of big muscular brothas to give it to you in the poke…..LOLOL
@COMMON SENSE! YOU TALK ***** BUT YOU SOUND LIKE A SUCKA AZZ NIGGR THAT WOULD ONLY POP THIS ***** ON P.C ! YOU SOUND LONELY AND BITTER! I FEEL YOU ALL THIS AZZ WALKING AROUND AND YOU BEATING YOUR MEAT AND ITZ HOT…. MUST BE MISERABLE! YOU ARE NO SPOKESMAN FOR BLK PPL !
@Hannibal
I don’t even know if you’re comments are jokes, but you make me laugh almost everytime!
NOT FUNNY BYTCH! IM BLK, THAT WILL NEVER WORK CORNBALL!
that is sad, but i see some names here where i work make me wanna say why you name your child that, we got to do better on them names. and i’m black and be like damn WHY?
THE EDITORS OF THE YEAR BOOK HAVE A BRIGHT FUTURE AHEAD OF THEM OVER AT FOX NEWS.
@ COMMON SENSE YOU MAKE NO SENSE USING WORDS AT ME THAT ARE ALREADY IN MY POST ….GET A LIFE YOU COWARDLY HEARTED BYTCH!
…and there was this dude from South Carolina who we thought was named “Urine” but it turned out his name was “Eric” he just had a really deep accent…
Actually, my friend Danielle named her daughter Ephedra…
glok9n,
If you are going to pretend to be black, can you please pretend to be an intelligent black person who doesn WRITE IN ALL CAPS and can spell?
It seems you are misspelling on purpose, which makes you an even bigger joke. Please calm down and get to cl*****. I think it’s like 3rd period right now.
I know white women named Keisha, one is actually Keithsha, so that cracks me up.
I like romantic names like C*****andra and Veronica. I’m an Ashley, so I stuck out like a sore thumb when I started public school in high school.
@Aunt Viv, thats a mess….but if you look at some of the names Celebs name their kids, IT’LL MAKE YOU WONDER WHY WE POINT THE FINGER AT JUST BLACK PEOPLE
AUDIO SCIENCE
Parent: Actress Shannyn Sossamon
POPPY HONEY
Parents: TV Chef Jamie Oliver and wife Julie Oliver
Beth Riesgraf & Jason Lee: Baby son Pilot Inspektor
The lists goes on and on and on….
SOMER:
YO, i just choked… chill with that hilarity before i get HANNITY & OREILLY to deebo that *****!
@commonsense
good one bro lolll u got me and my coworkers laughing hard here!!!
Lauren,
White people (especially celebs) do tons of stupid *****. Let’s let them monopolize stupidity for a change….
PS.
Chris Martin and Gwenyth Paltrow: Son is named Apple
the human resources manager in our office is black british and she doesn’t recruit any names like shanaynay or shaquina, she always ask me in her british sexy accent “oi mate do the parent of this kids smoke weed b4 giving their kid this ugly names” LMAOOOOO
COMMON SENSE YOU STILL RIDING MY DYCK AND NOW YOUVE ASKED “REAL DRE THE GAY IMPOSTER” TO JOIN IN! YOU TOOK LONG ENUFF TO FIND HIM! I DONT GIVE ***** ABOUT BLOOGING WHY FAKE WHO I AM BYTCH AND IVE BEEN THE SAME SINCE I 1ST BLOGGED HOMO! WHO HAS TIME TO SPELL CHECK IM HAVING A BALL…..IM RUNNING AROUND SPENDING MONEY HAVING FUN!
i work in an MD office and i hear some UGLY ghetto names. I have to say it…because it’s true! some of the names these girls have are just damn rediculous. then they have the audacity to get *****ed at you when you say the name wrong!!! im not saying everybody has to be named katie, or lauren, or sarah, but names like Quantantaleria and all such ***** as that is just crazy!!!
@COMMON SENSE! ,IT MAKES NO SENSE THAT YOU IMAGINED WHAT GOES ON IN A 13 YR OL BOYZ ROOM!….MY BLK PPL ARE STARTING THINK LIKE CHILD PRETADORZ…YOU PERVZ ARE EVERYWHERE!
AND REAL GAY DRE THE IMPOSTER , CO SIGNS! HA! YOU BYTCHMADE HOES KILL ME!
@Lucy
I work in MD, and I’ve met a Sylvesstreala. NO LIE. It was hard not to have the look of disbelief on my face.
@gloyn9
ur girlfriends aka,real woman, racheal, ain’t here to safe ur dumb azz now!!! trying to get puzzy over the internent is a dumb move son, once again fu&k u very much and go eat ur mama’s puzzy for lunch!!!
glok9n,
I want to thank you for that glorious intellect that has given us such gems as “HOMO!” “BYTCHEZ” “*****Z”
Very clever comebacks. Sounds about right for a 12 yr old from Omaha. Doesn’t mommy need her computer back now? Don’t forget to download the new G-Unit mixtape. More lessons on how to act like a bad black caricature. More like Coon stereotype.
I obviously *****ume you are a white child, because no self-respecting black man would represent himself as an uneducated buffoon.
You said “WHY FAKE WHO I AM BYTCH”. But come now son, we all know you are faking. Now go milk the cows while you listen to T.I. and imagine you’re “RUNNING AROUND SPENDING MONEY.”
LOLOLOLOLOL
LET YOUR PUNK AZZ CO WORKERS READ THIS….YOU THE ONLY ***** *****KER WITH A BACHELORS AND MASTERS AND CANT SPELL> THOGHT…YOU SPELL IT >TAUGHT AND YOUR DUMB AZZ SPELL> THOUGH > THOU…IM LIKE WHAT THE *****, LOOK BYTCH NIGGR WHICH PROFFESSER DYCK YOU SUCK TO GET THOSE CERTIFICATES!
I see Bossip has brought out the brotherly love as usual today.
Good Morning and Good afternoon Bossip family
THATZ ALL YOU GOT IZ MY IM WHITE AND IM FAKING ..YOU SOUND STUPID AND YOU CANT THINK OF NO OTHER JOKES ..SO IM DONE ! NIGGRZ LIKE YOU ***** MY HIGH UP ON P.C. IMAGINE HOW CORNY YOU ARE ON THE OUTSIDE WORLD CREEP! ***** OFF! LIKE THE CRAKAS FOLKS SAY!
glok9n, not to get in the biz but it just looks like Common Sense is just trying to start some internet beef so don’t play along, you didn’t initiate the “arguement” he did, and now he wants to come down on your style so you do you glok.
@gloygn
glok9n(Check me out!)
LET YOUR PUNK AZZ CO WORKERS READ THIS….YOU THE ONLY ***** *****KER WITH A BACHELORS AND MASTERS AND CANT SPELL> THOGHT…YOU SPELL IT >TAUGHT AND YOUR DUMB AZZ SPELL> THOUGH > THOU…IM LIKE WHAT THE *****, LOOK BYTCH NIGGR WHICH PROFFESSER DYCK YOU SUCK TO GET THOSE CERTIFICATES!
LMAOOOOO and they laughing even harder for ur dumb azz that cannot spell!!!LOL prefessor lolllllllllllllllllllll
thou is short for though, it’s a slang in england so get in right dumb azz!!lollllll
Common Sense only beefs with stupid people that make black folks look bad. Apparently, ignorance is a “style” according to Lauren.
“Do you,” just promise us that you won’t reproduce. The’s a surplus of mentally challenged folk in America.
@gloyn 9
oh one of my co-worker’s is being generous and saying it is professor and not what ur dumb azz wrote up there!!!LOL
@LAUREN! THANKS LAUREN MY SWEETNESS! IM NOT ENGAGING IN THIS HOMO ACTIVITY! HE HAS NO STYLE, NO MEANING NO PURPOSE, AND HEZ CLAIMING HEZ BLK? IM OUT!
@ GAY DRE! YO TELL THEM THIS….. I DID HESITATE ON THE *F* LOL! TELL THEM THEY SHOULD TRY THIS GOOD GREEN GANJA I HAVE AND THEY’LL ***** UP TOO!
@gloyn
and stop making ish up about me mispelling taught!! u must be smoking weed dude!! i know for sure that ur azz is still in 3rd grade!!!
everything you write makes no sense and most def have a mispelling malfuntion!!!
@glo
they also said u hesitated on the e too instead of o u dumb azz lmaoo. dude u making our day here keep going on with ur stupidity!!!LMAOOOOOOO
@glo
thay also said ur dumb azz is using weed as an excuse of ur stupidity!!lol and one of then said if it is true then past him one!!!lol
The perfect example of “Here’s what they think about you.”
Educate yourself, be the best, take control of your own destiny, uplift another black person, educate your children. It’s never going to stop folks. The only person you can change is yourself let the racist be racist.
What do you expect from some white folks? Most of them are simply to small-minded to accept people of all races as equal. Being prejudice is all they have to p***** and share with each other, its all they know.
@Lauren,
VERY good point. SMH @ those celeb names…
*****es!
Covina is full of Marias, Joses n Guadalupes!
@Royal Chocolate. Nicely put. Big ups for saying “SOME WHITE FOLKS” also. Not all of them are out to destroy us. F#ck the ones that are.
DAMN DAMN DAMN DAMN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Where was the yearbook sponsor? All work that goes to print must be approved by the teacher/sponsor.
Also, those students should have been suspended, or removed from the yearbook club or if seniors, had their diplomas held until the corrections were made.
HEY DRE THERE GO YOUR DUMB ***** USING TAUGHT, AS THOUGHT….ITZ “THOUGHT” YOU DUMB *****! TELL IF HE HANG WITH YOUR DUMB GAY AZZ THEN HE AINT READY FOR THIS KILLER GR*****! WHY DO THEY CALL YOU THE EXCLAMATION KING?…..IZ IT BECAUSE THEY REMIND YOU OF YOUR ***** *****GIT! OR THATZ HOW MANY IT TAKES TO ADD UP! NIGGR YOU LOVE THE EXCLAMATONZ!
Now, as someone with such a plain name, I think some unique names are beautiful, but some people do get carried away.
I had a white cl*****mate in junior high whose first name was a family name, Hennessey, and no one ever believed that was his real name. And he was a junior or the third I believe, but he used to get teased 24/7.
@Lauren-
I love Pilot Inspektor! I actually thought that was pretty cool when I heard it. I wouldn’t choose it myself. That’s like naming a child Astronaut Physicist or something.
@ DRE AKA WHITEBOY! TELL YOUR CO WORKERS THIS….TELL THEM THAT I HOPE YOUR PLACE OF BUSINESS GETZ STUCK UP….AND THEY ROB YOU AND THEM SISSYS, OH THAT THEY BEAT THEM BYTCHES ***** UP….YOU WORK WITH IN KFC!
I used to live next to Covina and it is a nice upper middle income area and the fact that this school left this blatant disrespect for racial tolerance is horrible.
Wake up, Wake up, Wake Up!!!This is America in where you are going to run into individuals from many different backgrounds with untraditional names.Ever try to *****ounce a middle eastern name or an asian name? Its not that easy sometimes, but I try because that person cares. That high school had no right to ridicule and humilate children because of their ethnicity and name enunciation. Every person deserves respect regardless of how ridiculious you think their name is, and just because its a black person does not make it “ghetto”. It shouldn’t be a shock that all kinds of people live in the ghetto/slums or low income housing not just blacks. I wish close-minded folks would realize that we all don’t live like old reruns of “Good Times” or “Boys in the Hood” and we all will not conform to how caucasians think we should be. Blacks have their own culture whether the world will acknowledge it to be more than “entertainment” for their amusement and bigotry or not. We are who we are and we will be here until God says otherwise.
Black Power.
Felicia isn’t a ghetto name. It’s actually Latin. Also, there was a white character on General Hospital with the name Felicia.
20/20 did a show about this a few years ago…they took several black people all with ethnic names and had them apply for jobs in their ethnic names and more traditional names…all of the traditional names got calls back but none of the ethnic names did and both resumes had the same credentials…and a lot of the hiring managers were black…
@Aunt Viv, no problem, poor kids gotta live with the name Pilot Inspektor!
@Wahtsyoursismine, LOL! You like that name? I mean maybe it really won’t matter because a lot of times celebs kids are famous anyways so they won’t have to get a regular job looking at their name on an application but for those of them that DO have to get a regular job , GOD BLESS MOONBLOOD (Yes, a celeb named their child MoonBlood)
I work at a school and there is no way the final prinout of the book goes into production without consent from the yearbook editor and chief(teacher) and viewed by the prin*****l
This was stupidity at its finest. Why are we surprised by this???
pardon the typo-printout
another wild celebrity baby name:
Moxie Crimefighter -daughter of Penn Gilette (magician)
Erykah Badu’s two children are named Seven and Puma
Those sound like some 70’s hippie flower power names
One of my co-workers name is Michalene and she is NOT black!
Is that considered “ghetto”?????
Well if some of yall stopped naming your kids these ridiculous names no one would have ammunition for jokes-right?
I hate those made up African names anyway; no one named Shaniqua ever makes it in the corporate world.
And now that Human Resource Depts are checking out the 5th digit in social security numbers do you really think black folks stand a chance????
This is some bullshyt! For real. That is disgusting. I am sorry but you gave someone stickers to hand out. No you get that handled immediately and give out new books. I would be daxn if i paid all the money for my senior dues, yaer book fees and my name would be wrong, I don’t care what the reason was. That is some bullshyt for real.
This internet gang banging ***** is ridic!!!!
Who gives a ***** about what other people name the children. What you dumb ***** people should be thinking about is birth control so we don’t have another batch of ignorant ***** crack babies running around.
Yeah Erica B named her kid seven because he is the seventh child. Real talk…google that *****.
Erykah Badue also named her other kid PUMA!
I’ve always loved Native American names, my favorite being Tallulah. The guy I’m seeing threatened to divorce me and take the baby should I do that to any of our children.
I know the meaning behind the name but I still would name my seed seven
Maybe nickname him “seven” but I wouldn’t put it on the birth certificate
It’s for seven sign actually-She studied the math of the 5 percent nation
pardon I wouldn’t name my seed seven
7 = G = God
the funny thing is when u can tell that the momma tried to combine her name and the daddy’s name, and give the daughter a name like Odisanina..can’t give up any real names for HIPPA reasons! but trust me..it happens!
YO! WHAT’S UP!?!?!?!
WoW!!!
YA’LL GOIN’ AT IT TODAY!!!
Funny how a post about blacks being wronged…
Quickly turns into a fight among blacks vs. blacks!
The yearbook kids should be punished by the school, new books issued to EVERYBODY(all old books should be destroyed) and a public apology rendered.
HOPE *****ODY GETS MAD AT THAT…….
Da pro… good morning .. whats up with you…the post are getting boring to me but just jumped on to say hey to you!
*HIPAA oops..too many p’s not enough a’s
Da truff hurtz…. you are so right.. thats why i dont come on here too much… what ever you say turns into a fight… somebody has to get on here and call your name put and argue and cuss.. wtf? its an gossip board… i went on a white site and all they do there is state their opinions and move on.. but they are boring but this mess with the “oh you hoe and you nappy head this and that is pathetic, especially when you dont even reallyb know who you are talking to!
Ms BB
What’s up sweetheart. Howz the desert treating you?
It’s mad angry on Bossip as usual. You know how it goes. We keep it luv though
@GLO
u are so stupid, i did not even use that word today u dumb f&uck!!! get ur dumb mind right before approaching me!!! u are not even on my level academically trust!!u dumb *****. u are using weed as an excuse of ur stupidity EVERYDAY how dumb is that!! u moron. u are not educated, u always have grammatical error, and u can’t spell to save ur life!! fu(k off dumb azz and go get ur GED IDIOT!!!!
@GLO
my coworkers pity ur dumb uneducated azz and feel sorry for you!!! anytime i come on bossip u always ***** up in putting just a sentence together, u are sooooo retarded!!! once again go to school get a degree and come at me you dummy!!!
OH really blame Black people huh? I haven’t met one Black child named crispy yet…so wtf are you all talking about?
Therealdre..wtf does my name have to be in your mouth? Because some people agree with some stuff that Glok9n says means that we are his bodyguards? That is stupid and you know it. BE A MAN and fight your battles WITHOUT calling the women out…
ANYWAY, fvck all you wannabe muf*****as hating on those who don’t choose to name their kids after their ex EUROPEAN MASTERS. You are just as bad as the people who MAKE UP names.
I come on here expecting to see outrage and instead you have some dumb *****es talking about ‘but black people do name their kids that doh’. That is not the point stupid! The point is that BLACK people on a whole aren’t just made up of Black Americans named Shanaenae and THOSE Blacks are going to be offended by these corny whites attempt at humor. I could just see you back in the day:
“wooooooweeee! You see that neega hanging from the tree hahahahahaaa…look at ‘im with his head *****ed to the side, boy does that neega look funny’ Meanwhile some good old boys are sneaking up behind your dumb a$$ with a noose..you idiots.
@glo
as a matter of fact i pity ur mother’s azz, u b*tch puzzy…. people come here and make little mistake on spelling, but ur’s is just f*cked up!!! half of what you say is worse that what peter Griffin says on family guy!!!don’t be mad cause i got 2degrees LOL go get urs, let it be a motivation for you and your family!!! no matter what u say to me would never affect me, it even makes me laugh at u harder n*gga!! please for ur own sake go get a real education and stop coming here with ur lame grammar it is driving me nuts dude!!!
@realwoman
u agree with his stupidity!!! u need to help him out before he ends up being a thug on the street and ends up being dead!!
Is it just that you want some females to agree with whatever it is that you are trying to say? lmao…are you the one unsucessfully looking for ‘interenet pu$$y’ as you so eloquently put it? Well if you have something of substance to say you got my vote, but right now you don’t have anything much to say.
@Realwoman
So how many people in Africa are named LaQuana? Or LaShronda? I was in South Africa last year, didn’t meet any Shamikas.
Just because it’s not white, doesn’t mean it’s good or smart. Jesus, you want to put your child in touch with his heritage, name him something Nigerian or Ghanian or Kenyan. But just making some ***** up like Shamonda is low cl***** and foolish because it’s not even our heritage.
just reading a few of these comments on here makes me SOOOO happy that a BLACK man named BARACK OBAMA is running for president!!! there are some folks on here who are BEYOND judgemental. to say that someone WON’T succeed because of their name is a bit extreme. i’m not saying that name discrimination doesn’t happen because it does. i’m just saying that some people need to come out of the clouds. once again, a BLACK man named BARACK OBAMA is running for the highest political office in America! he IS successful and liked by blacks, whites and everybody in between. he OBVIOUSLY has not been doomed by his name. i’m so happy that he’s showing that there are NO limits regardless of race and/or name.
da pro… not much just staying out of this 109 degrees weather here in the desert! stay sweet bro!
dre… whats sup my man dre…. hows it been?
I don’t really like some of the names I hear people naming their children,but I still believe people have a right to name their child whatever they want,and no matter the name,it should be respected-I mean come on,is it the child’s fault? All of my children have names related to their African heritage.The real reason that crackers do this kind of thing with black people is because they know blacks do not stick together and fight for anything-they will complain amongst one another but thats about it.Let some Jewish children with strange names get picked on like that and the Jews would have shut that school down.
Beyond everything, you don’t think they could have come up with a very generic name or code for unknown names instead of what they used for the black students? Given that you KNOW and are very AWARE that even using these names was a very rasict and offensive action. And the school just says it was a mistake? They are getting bolder and bolder with this type of behavior. This is not about any heritage as @common sense has stated, it is about our heritage of allowing this most b***** type of rasicm happen!
I was in the store and I hear some woman yelling out “Taemon, LaQuasia, get ova here” I turned around and sure enough it was what I expected… a young black woman (no wedding ring) with bedroom shoes on and no bra and a wife beater, head scarf, sweat pants. I’m black and I had this sterotype in my head. I agree, you want to honor your heritage pick an African name, not these stupid ghetto names. I would never date a Laquisha or Shamika etc.
this is kinda funny, because blacks do name their kids these weird names AND THEN give them stupid nicknames that they really go by! but if thats not the name of the student, thats not right to have that in the yearbook.
some teacher had to be in on that for no one to realize it until they were all issued.
Also, you all are *****uming that the entire yearbook staff was white. Black kids joke on other black kids too. This needs to be corrected as well.
Barack Obama is not a ghetto name. His whole name, Barack Hussein Obama, is arabic. get your facts straight. The problem is that black people in America have tried to overcompensate for a stolen culture by making up new completely ridiculous names. I have no problem with using African names, which in my opinion usually sound signified…..but the ridiculous names black ppl have made up like Shaquala and Alize and Lexus have done nothing but further polluted black American culture. You dont find black people in europe or other places with ridiculous names like this.
I cannot even justify the foolishness of saying Barack Obama is a ghetto name. Wow foolishness reigns supreme to the one who said that.
What sickens me is that people are thrown off when a black person does not have these randomly synthesized names that clearly have no meaning whatsoever. At least blacks in other cultures either use european names which have meaning by the one for those of you who dont realize that or stick to using names from their cultural descent. This is sad
to royal chocolate
some black folks are just as small minded and in some cases as was said in the great debaters have simply lost their righteous mind. I mean when was it that DMX was tripping over the fact that Barack Obama was a black man running for president
LAQUAN WHITE, LMAO!
@Shaz-
I agree with you on people trying to overcompensate and trying to make up for lost culture. There are so many beautiful Arabic and French names that sound so similar to what they make up, and have a meaning.
And some names can be combined to make something interesting. My guy’s name is a combination of his dad’s first and middle name, and I love it. He hates it. But then again I come from a family of cheerleaders, and all of our names are really cutesy (Bethany, Phoebie, Callie, Luci), so he likes our “Normal” names and I love his homemade, unique name.
We did a road trip down to Brownsville, TX and it turns out, his name is popular among old Southern White men. There’s a guy who has 3 car dealerships in South Texas with his same first name, so he felt worse than he did before. And there was a greeter at Walmart that had his first name. Now he says his name isn’t just ghetto anymore, it’s country, too.
to EVERYONE on here saying that barack obama is NOT a “ghetto name”…i NEVER said it was. besides, who determines what IS indeed “ghetto.” the POINT (all of you judgmental critics, who obviously can’t read or comprehend) is that SOME people can actually accept DIVERSITY!! the point isn’t whether his name is arabic, black american, italian or whatever. it’s the fact that his name is DIFFERNT and that it doesn’t doom or define his character, as others have stated on here. get YOUR facts straight and read what’s actually being said before making a ridiculous comment. SMH
Funny, how everyone on here is saying that those people must be total racists for doing what they did, but in the same breath think it’s ok to have a “Black Student Union”.. That is what is really racists… having a “Black” union in and of itself is TOTALLY RACISTS..
If there was a “White Student Union” in that school, everyone here would be calling racism.. But i guess it’s ok to segregate yourselves and than scream racism when they do something you don’t like..
Hmm, can anyone on here say “HYPOCRITE”.. i surely can..
You are all hypocrites if you think that what they did was racists, but wont’ aknowledge the fact that the whole “UNION” is a racists union…
Jul 2, 2008 – 11:24 am Aunt Viv(Check me out!)
…and there was this dude from South Carolina who we thought was named “Urine” but it turned out his name was “Eric” he just had a really deep accent…
Actually, my friend Danielle named her daughter Ephedra…
YEAH Racists are nolonger walking the earth, it was a 60’s -80’s thing.Everyone loves hiphop and bet how can they be racists?
REAL GAY DRE ***** YOU AND YOUR CO WORKERS,YOU ARE THE DUMBEST BYTCH ON HERE CHANGING SCREEN NAMES ….CURSING YOUR FRIENDS AS “WHITEBOY” AND COMING BACK AS “GAY DRE” IM DONE WITH YOU, YOUR EXPOSED AND WISHING DEATH ON ME ALREADY BACKFIRED ON YOU SO TRY IT AGAIN….”THE FAMILY GUY” YOU *****KING GEEK *****GIT ! I DONT WATCH THE FAMILY GUY IM TOO BUSY *****KING ! I DONT CARE IF I SPELL IT RIGHT OR NOT ,ITZ NOT THAT SERIOUS LIL BOY!
@REALWOMAN! LOVE YOU SISTA AS ALWAYZ! YOU DONT HAVE TO EXPLAIN THIS ***** NO MORE, IM DONE WITH TRYING TO SAVE PPL FROM THEIR IGNORANCE IM JUST GONNA SAY WHAT THE ***** I WANT AND IF IT OFFENDS THEM *****KEM! THE REAL DRE IZ A BYTCH MADE FELLOW, HEZ ON THIS ***** WEEKENDZ&WEEKDAYZ HE HAS NO LIFE AND GETZ NOOOO PUTANG! BUT HEZ SO RICH OFF OF DADDYZ MONOPOLY MONEY! HA! IM NOT ON HIZ LEVEL I KNOW HE IZ A REAL JACKAZZ!
it said maybe we as black people stop giving our kids these f@ck a@@ name …thinking some how they are black name come . i have ran across some name i could not *****ounce or spell. so let get it right asap
@glo and fakewoman
u are a mad black woman, you and the b&tch called realwoman should kiss my azz for all i care!! her dumb azz should have never responded if i had no substances to my comment!! dumb b&tch
folks up there in Africa dont name their kids those shady names …. they all have english names especially in Kenya … blacks in U.S have extremely horrible,ridicoulous names period
First off, all names are made up. Lauren, Mary, Kelly, and John, all of these names were made up and new at some point in time. The only reason they are more common is because they have had centuries to be replicated. Anytime someone hears a “Ka,” “”Ta,: or a “Sha” it is *****umed that these names are made up Black ghetto names, hell some maybe, but a lot are not.
Example:
Akulina, Korzay, Sheombar, Tionnia–> All Russian names, but if a Black person has one of these names its called “ghetto.”
@me
i go to a catholic university (mostly white) and we have a black student union. we also have asian groups, and latino groups. since its a catholic school, irish studies is really big on campus. all of the groups are open to all, and to the public, and they all do different things for fundraising and put on different shows pertaining to its culture.
at least at my school, no one is segregating themselves. the clubs are there for people to learn and attend functions. at my school the black student union is trying to get more african american cl*****es to be offered during the school year. its more about awareness and NOT segregation.
@me
also, our black student union hosts one of the biggest (if not THE biggest) fundraisers that the university has throughout the whole school year, and asians, blacks, whites, etc. all show up and usually stay all night. now, if thats segregation, then i dont know what is.
how u gonna blame the school couse some damn *****
kids playing a joke and *****
this ish is funny no doubt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Tay Tay Shaniqua ……….damn
tay tay short for tayshon and shaniqua is the mythical black name that blacks use when describing “funny black names”?
neva met a crispy tho
I can dig what you are saying k-ten..
But my issue is with what they call it.. why does it have to be a black, asian etc etc.. why can’t it just be a “student union”…
i everyone knows that if anything is called “white” it’s deemed racist..
tell me how that’s NOT hypocritical..
@me
i can see what you mean. union does seem “civil war-ish”.
all i can say is that maybe the school is mostly white, and all they do is talk about Shakespeare, George Washington and Columbus, etc. and maybe the minority groups just arent recognized enough in education. i cant speak for that school, but i know my school wont push other minority groups and activities if it wasnt for the students themselves.
Barrack Obama is NOT an arabic name, it is a luo name(kenyan tribe) Hussein is arabic but Obama is not.its funny cause the same way that white people look down on shaniqua’s and la’shawns is the same way africans look down on them saying tsk tsk tsk
Where did these names Shaniqua and shenaynay and Jaquon, Tikisha come from? It can’t be African… I never met no African named Shaniqwa sorry.
Whenever I hear the name Shaniqwa Ithink of some fat hoodrat with a pineapple hairstyle and vampire nails in neon green and pink saying “gurrl you knowz I’m da ***** in this *****”
Damn! S.H.A.N.I.Q.W.A!….
I think this needs to be reposted for the reading impaired…
First off, all names are made up. Lauren, Mary, Kelly, and John, all of these names were made up and new at some point in time. The only reason they are more common is because they have had centuries to be replicated. Anytime someone hears a “Ka,” “”Ta,: or a “Sha” it is *****umed that these names are made up Black ghetto names, hell some maybe, but a lot are not.
Example:
Akulina, Korzay, Sheombar, Tionnia–> All Russian names, but if a Black person has one of these names its called “ghetto.”