Why do people have such a hard time understanding that "Black names" are just as legit as any other name? If "Lebron" is a popular name, and you can see it or a similar sounding name being used across a culture, than what argument can be made against it? Names are just arbitrary anyways, it's not like their is some sort of objective inherent advantage of one name over another, society places a hierarchy on naming.
The problem here, as the problem always is in the case of prejudice, is the people with the bias, not the other way around. How long are we going to have to hear about this "Eww, I don't like that name, too ghetto" shit before people come to terms with the fact that a portion of African Americans name their kids differently? I mean, this obviously isn't just some trend or a fad, it's apart of the culture. Even before the frenchified names came to be, blacks have always taken different names for their children. Back in the early 1900's for instance, up until sometime in say the 60's or 70's, it was very common for black girls to have two first names. You will notice a lot of "Betty-Elizabeth" style names for black women from this period.
And this isn't just happening for the "Shaniqua" and "Latania" either. This is for "regular" ass sounding names like Huey, Jamal, Darrel, Donnell, Leeroy, Malcolm, etc. Must black people start naming all their kids Biblical names, as well as change their last names, before they can expect fairness in hiring callbacks?
Edit : Excuse me but this really ticks me off. Considering all the examples we have to oppose any sort of bias that one should have against "black sounding" names, I really have little tolerance for those close minded enough to still discriminate on something as petty as this. People have known about Oprah for Decades. They have known about Denzel for decades. They now know of Barack (And believe me, you are going to start seeing this name pop up, especially among blacks, because of Obama). It's time to fucking let this one go.
