"On Having a Black Name"

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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

[katarik.livejournal.com]

At my old job, one of the girls brought in to replace me has the last name Lopez. She's a redheaded white girl, and one of the other coworkers spent, I swear, five minutes going 'Is Lopez your husband's name? You don't look Hispanic! You're Lindsay Lopez, really?' and I'm glad I was walking out, because I might have come back just to smack him if I hadn't been in a hurry.

But I just. That post. That *post*, I want to *slap someone*, I. RARGH.

[dominika-kretek.livejournal.com]

Welcome to my life.

Then you get the other response: "DO YOU SPEAK ENGLISH?"