Names in the black community

[the_pestilence]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (S_Guard @ Apr 30 2007, 01:32 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I'm black(!) 4 real tho I rolled that over from text messaging(.) In otherwords, I did it when text messaging and now here(.)</div>what's the point of using texting/IM lingo if it takes longer to type than not doing it, IE (.)

 

[S_Gurad]

just feel like it.... texting is costing some dough tho, so I gotta chill with that texting stuff(.)Yeah I just feel like it and im a fast typer it doesn't take long at all(.)Edi: Back on subject

 

[Bohemian]

I think you guys are viewing the african minority and as the majority. Majority of Black people in America have what you would consider a "normal name." Ive been going to a majority Afro American school for about 3 years, and prolly 1-2 people in a class of about 20-25 people with a "creative" name if any at all. Also if you read my post earlier in this thread, it explains how names like that have come about

 

[Justice]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Bohemian @ Apr 30 2007, 11:03 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I think you guys are viewing the african minority and as the majority. Majority of Black people in America have what you would consider a "normal name." Ive been going to a majority Afro American school for about 3 years, and prolly 1-2 people in a class of about 20-25 people with a "creative" name if any at all. Also if you read my post earlier in this thread, it explains how names like that have come about</div>Fair enough. But it's not like you're going to run into a white kid name DeLondre or anything like that very often.edit: What I mean to say is that a higher percentage of black people are named in such a way. A much higher percentage.

 

[Roaming]

what about names like Johnson? The original name is John, why add son?

 

[The Captain]

That's a last name. They are supposed to be different.

 

[Bohemian]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Justice @ May 1 2007, 12:34 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Fair enough. But it's not like you're going to run into a white kid name DeLondre or anything like that very often.edit: What I mean to say is that a higher percentage of black people are named in such a way. A much higher percentage.</div>hmm idk if the percentage is that much different, I have been too a majority white, majority hispanic, and a majority black school in my life, and the percentage of black and whites withcreative names is about the same, well maybe not percentage, but the numbers of the them is the same, hispanics however, rarely have a person with a "creative name" and also remember, creative names are not only one that sound like latrice or deshawn, their also names like today and tomorrow, I knew a pair of white twins that were named that and I thought it was ridiculous

 

[BFR]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (RaptorFan#1 @ May 1 2007, 01:01 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>what about names like Johnson? The original name is John, why add son?</div>Johnson is a last name I rarely have heard anybody in my hood with the name Johnson(.)Don't ask me why I did that (,) or that(.)

 

[gentile]

I wish my name was Buffy or Todd.