I would’ve slapped the shyt out my mama if she named me Abidemi
When did Blk ppl get so corny at naming their children ?
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Laidbackman
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I have a middle name that has nine characters, and I used to be ashamed of it when I was a child. This was two decades before the 80's, and we weren't getting the kinda Black names we get today. It's not a muslim middle name, but since around 2000, it's become a more popular first name, than a middle name. Anyway, I grew up thinking that no White person could tell by my middle name that I was Black. That's how rare my middle name was when I was growing up. With my middle name, I must have been lucky to get all those job interviews I got, when I was looking for my first IT job...although I would never get an offer. For it not to be Dominique, Lakeith, etc.., til this day, I have never heard a White male with my middle name, and of course not for their first name. I'll just say my middle name is mentioned in the Bible. Maybe that's why I got those job interviews.
I didn't realize it until several years ago, but when sisters hear my middle name, they kinda identify it with a hood name. Not necessarily pookie or ray ray, but still a hood name. I got that impression when I had to prove my identity for a reason I'm not gonna get into right now. This Black female traffic court clerk on the phone, up in the New Jersey Motor Vehicles Department, kept emphasizing my middle name. It felt like she was signifying that although my middle name sounded Black, it couldn't prove my identity. She did this in a sorta sassy way, and it almost felt like she was comparing me to a pookie, or somebody she dated with my middle name, or somebody she dated that had my middle name for their last name, and she was taking out some of her frustrations on me. And you wonder why it's being reported that their fertility rate have just dropped below White women's, although only slightly.
I didn't realize it until several years ago, but when sisters hear my middle name, they kinda identify it with a hood name. Not necessarily pookie or ray ray, but still a hood name. I got that impression when I had to prove my identity for a reason I'm not gonna get into right now. This Black female traffic court clerk on the phone, up in the New Jersey Motor Vehicles Department, kept emphasizing my middle name. It felt like she was signifying that although my middle name sounded Black, it couldn't prove my identity. She did this in a sorta sassy way, and it almost felt like she was comparing me to a pookie, or somebody she dated with my middle name, or somebody she dated that had my middle name for their last name, and she was taking out some of her frustrations on me. And you wonder why it's being reported that their fertility rate have just dropped below White women's, although only slightly.
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DJ Paul's Arm
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My old coworker named his son Aye for convenience.
“Aye! Aye come here!”
“Aye! Aye come here!”
