"On Having a Black Name"

[browngirl]

From hitchhiker:

On having a black name by Daisy of Daisy's Dead Air.



An example of what people said to her when she used to work customer service and she gave her name:

"Are you black? Give me someone white. I want someone who can find their ass with both hands, no offense."

Comments

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Heh.

My name is "Ian Osmond." My sister's name is "Leila Angelou." In my sister's Hebrew school class, one of her friends was named "Leigh O'Sullivan."

Growing up, I never understood the concept of "Jewish name."

[rebmommy.livejournal.com]

And mine is totally Greek - how did that happen?