"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]

Telemarketers somewhat frequently call us and talk to us in Spanish. For my wife, who's last name is "Riba". Her Spanish consists of high-school language classes, and she actually got her last name from Poland.

Of course, her brother somehow ended up olive-complexioned and dark-haired. He worked as an undercover vice cop in the Tampa Bay area, where a lot of the gangs are Hispanic, so it actually helped . . .