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I find this entire thread bizarre and disheartening. Why are white people afraid of using a name (European in origin I might add) simply because they associate it with black Americans? It's one thing if you don't like the sound of a name, but to steer away from it for the sole reason that you think others would assume your child is a different race -- what kind of depressing statement does that make about these posters, and our country, that this is perceived as a negative?

The statement it makes is that there is still racism in this country. Which should not come as news.

You're all nuts. Who said it was negative? I'd find it odd if say, a Spanish family named their son Declan. Or an Irish family named their son Julio.

Assuming people mean these things negatively says more about you and your holier-than-thou PC-ness than them.

Except that the name Marcus has its origins in ancient Rome. What is specifically African about it? So lots of African American boys have the name, so what? Does that follow that it is ethnically African and therefore white people would naturally want to steer away from it, because horrors, someone might think the child is black? It's such a strange argument to say that because many black children are named Marcus that therefore white families wouldn't want to name their boys that. I happen to know quite a few black men whose name is James. Does that make James an African name and therefore white people shouldn't use it?

Do you think it strange that Asian Americans name their children Mary and John?

Seriously, why don't you spend some time in Europe see how many (white) men are named Marcus/Markus.

It's a nice name. It has no color.

+1. Big difference between Julio and Marcus. Marcus has no specific connection to African-American culture. It's an ancient Roman name. Very common in Europe, for instance in Germany.

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I find this entire thread bizarre and disheartening. Why are white people afraid of using a name (European in origin I might add) simply because they associate it with black Americans? It's one thing if you don't like the sound of a name, but to steer away from it for the sole reason that you think others would assume your child is a different race -- what kind of depressing statement does that make about these posters, and our country, that this is perceived as a negative?

The statement it makes is that there is still racism in this country. Which should not come as news.

You're all nuts. Who said it was negative? I'd find it odd if say, a Spanish family named their son Declan. Or an Irish family named their son Julio.

Assuming people mean these things negatively says more about you and your holier-than-thou PC-ness than them.

Except that the name Marcus has its origins in ancient Rome. What is specifically African about it? So lots of African American boys have the name, so what? Does that follow that it is ethnically African and therefore white people would naturally want to steer away from it, because horrors, someone might think the child is black? It's such a strange argument to say that because many black children are named Marcus that therefore white families wouldn't want to name their boys that. I happen to know quite a few black men whose name is James. Does that make James an African name and therefore white people shouldn't use it?

Do you think it strange that Asian Americans name their children Mary and John?

Seriously, why don't you spend some time in Europe see how many (white) men are named Marcus/Markus.

It's a nice name. It has no color.

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Anonymous wrote:
I find this entire thread bizarre and disheartening. Why are white people afraid of using a name (European in origin I might add) simply because they associate it with black Americans? It's one thing if you don't like the sound of a name, but to steer away from it for the sole reason that you think others would assume your child is a different race -- what kind of depressing statement does that make about these posters, and our country, that this is perceived as a negative?

The statement it makes is that there is still racism in this country. Which should not come as news.

You're all nuts. Who said it was negative? I'd find it odd if say, a Spanish family named their son Declan. Or an Irish family named their son Julio.

Assuming people mean these things negatively says more about you and your holier-than-thou PC-ness than them.

Anonymous wrote:Every black person has a cousin named Marcus.

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I find this entire thread bizarre and disheartening. Why are white people afraid of using a name (European in origin I might add) simply because they associate it with black Americans? It's one thing if you don't like the sound of a name, but to steer away from it for the sole reason that you think others would assume your child is a different race -- what kind of depressing statement does that make about these posters, and our country, that this is perceived as a negative?

The statement it makes is that there is still racism in this country. Which should not come as news.

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I find this entire thread bizarre and disheartening. Why are white people afraid of using a name (European in origin I might add) simply because they associate it with black Americans? It's one thing if you don't like the sound of a name, but to steer away from it for the sole reason that you think others would assume your child is a different race -- what kind of depressing statement does that make about these posters, and our country, that this is perceived as a negative?

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Anonymous wrote:Every black person has a cousin named Marcus.

It's definitely an AA name, but I think an ugly one. Are you AA? there's so many better names regardless. I picture an ugly person.