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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If your name were on this thread, when you Googled yourself you would find an anonymous stranger saying "I went to school with a person named X.  Horrible!  Trashy!"  That would be really hurtful.  Try to have a little empathy, people.

Also, the Baby Name Blog has a great series of posts about the racial connotations of "humorous" anecdotes about names like "La-A," "Female," "Lemonjello and Orangejello," etc. The point is that while these stories seem to just be about "funny names," they have clear racial meaning.

http://www.babynamewizard.com/archives/2009/10/ledasha-legends-and-race-part-one  [/quote]

If your name is on this thread, odds are you don't need Google to know that not everyone loves it. And yes, of course there are racial connotations to names, but you're post seems inapposite here, PP, because it is focused on African American names. Most the names being discussed in this thread are usually given to white children--a fact which anyone sensitive to racial meaning must surely have noticed. If anything, this thread shows that "white" names can be equally subject to ridicule. [/quote]

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