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Thursday, May 1, 2008

What do you think?

So I am curious, what are your thoughts on this post.
http://daisysdeadair.blogspot.com/2008/04/on-having-black-name.html

Posted by Aves @ Call of the Phoebe at 4:24 PM

7 comments:

Marta said...

Unfortunately, true to life in the South. Not everyone. Not even most. Just enough people like this out there,it makes you want to make you scream.

May 1, 2008 at 7:00 PM
Marta said...

Let me clarify: I'm talking about her experience with her classmates and her customers.

May 1, 2008 at 7:01 PM
Anonymous said...

An interesting post.. Who'd have thought the Grateful Dead have any fans in South Carolina.

May 2, 2008 at 7:32 AM
Kelly said...

Interesting to say the least.

May 2, 2008 at 9:03 AM
Sarah said...

Good reading. I don't doubt her experiences. We have a hispanic last name (my husband's Asian Pac-Spanish, and I'm white). In Wisconsin, more often than not, if people even *think* that you're Mexican, they'll treat you like Sh*t. I get more calls back on resumes if I use my (very) Anglo maiden name. Less dropped restaurant reservations. *Every* time I inquired about a private school over the phone, someone disdainfully explained to me that they rarely gave out full scholarships and that my child would have to be "topnotch" academically in order to be that lucky. Huh? This was before I even asked about tuition--but just after I spelled out my child's name. And people wonder why I homeschool ;)

Funny thing is, my maiden name is only Anglo because my dad switched to it from his very Polish last name that is completely unpronounceable by sight. He started a law practice in the early 70s and reasoned that nobody would call the law firm of a name they couldn't pronounce, let alone a "Po-lac" name.

May 2, 2008 at 11:38 AM
Jane said...

I was born and raised in the South and have a last name that is normally considered "black." I have a lot of feelings/comments about the post. But I'll share just one general comment - Why did she devote so much space to negativity about "stupid Southerners" and black people, too?
I'm interested to hear what you think?

May 2, 2008 at 10:31 PM
Brenda said...

I am not familiar with life in the south. It sounds like a true story. I wish it were not true. I would rather focus on solutions and ways to make the world better than on the stupidity.

May 3, 2008 at 6:40 AM

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