or you could try to get name-blind laws on the book. other countries have experienced with these types of laws. i'm guessing instead of a name u list an ID to identify yourself on applications. Even with a white first name some surnames reveal your ethnicity (even for blacks).
also, u have to draw the line. first u erase your names to comfort them and what's next? everything about us makes them uncomfortable & studies show that creative names across races only negatively affects blacks. it's not the name that offends them its your race.
There isn't a prayer of a chance in this climate of getting name-blind laws on the book, for employment at least. Direct conflict w/ affirmative action and all of that.
I'm sure people are regularly surprised because I have a "white-sounding" name, alongside phone interviews and the like, since apparently I sound like Isaac Hayes with a Mid-Atlantic accent.
Its better to play the game while also working to change the discriminatory laws, than to name your child something ridiculous in the hope that the laws will pass.
Its also rather apparent that low-income Black parents are more likely to give their children "creative names" than middle/upper-middle class Black parents, in essence the lower income parents are cutting their kids' futures at the knees by being poor, and then stabbing them in the chest by ensuring that they'll likely be discriminated against on the basis of their name.
And creative names stemming in other languages and cultures are more difficult to discriminate against than the culture at large, because unless you speak that language and are apart of that culture, you have no idea if the name is "creative" or not.
) are Michael (after Archangel Michael) and Malcolm (after Malcolm X) and my future daughter I'm a name her Giada. Nothing "hoodish" and nothing too plain sounding either.
