In the sitcom Scrubs, Dr. Cox is forever referring to intern John “J.D.” Dorian by girls’ names (complete list here).
In the comments, Just Somebody [High Praise!] referred to President Obama thusly:
Geez, at least Bush would have showed up in jeans and asked for a shovel. Mary looks like she just blew in from the salon. Ewwwww dirt…
Now, “Mary” is – stereotypically speaking – a “white” girl’s name, so it’s probably racist to apply this to America’s First Black African-American of Color President.
If you MUST deride the Commander-in-Chief’s manhood, I submit this list of more racially-sensitive monikers:
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* Oprah
* Venus
* Serena
* Beyoncé
* Tyra
* Whitney
* Condoleezza
* Maya
* Halle
* Rosa
* Aretha
* Moesha
* Mahalia
* Whoopi
* Latifah
* Rihanna
* Coretta
* Mo’Nique
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Also, please don’t use “Michelle”, since that name may be offensive to Wookiees and/or Klingons.
Shawika Hussein is just upset because his tofu milkshake doesn’t bring all the boys to the yard.
Oh, no you didn’t! Tawana Obama is so gonna smack you upside the head with the race card!
La-a (Ladasha) not kidding a friends relative worked in social services and this name is true. The mother was quite upset when people mispronounce the name as Laa.
One of my daughters swore they were going to name their first girl Ushrieka. She had twin boys so that bullet dodged for now.
Is it racist to call a medicine by a black girls name? Will it effect sales? For example: My doctor told me about Levitra, (so far so good, but what if we add this)…but I ignored his advice and now I’m undergoing a series of penicillin shots. Racist? You be the judge. I might also add that Damn Cat is definitely pushing the envelop as Tawana sounds very much like Bawana..
What about Shaniqua?
SOB- That’s actually a traditional Polish song commemorating the end of Great Irish-Polish Potato War of 1711.
Although Towana works perfectly, it does bring up the Towana Browly case of false rape/racism accusations.
Jasmine
Morona fits him (it?) to a T.
My daughter went to school with a Formica.
Mike beat me to it – I too was going to suggest “Shaniqua”, albeit through a variety of alternative spellings like Shani’kwa, Chaniqa, Shanneequa,… Also, in my case I must give historical credit to a dear, white, non-racist friend of mine who jokingly referred to both his unborn sons (prior to learning their gender) as “Shaniqua Jade” whenever anyone asked what names they were considering.
LaTrina or LaTrina FeMali. It fits one who most likely voids the contents of their bladder from a seated position.
I think: Sha-Tawnya would be most apt.
I think we need to defer to the cultural norm of the respective community and use that community’s preferred and most-common girl name for non-whites: Bee-Yotch.
Dude, Obama isn’t worthy of Condoleeza.
CtM – Just trying to be bipartisan 🙂
I always thought they named them for where they were conceived. In his case:
Toiletia
sevenelevenkwai
backroomay
Remembering he is half white (Not be confused with half-wit)
brendel
mary-ikwa
sally-ole
Trudy-chile
His mother’s estate should have to pay a retroactive didn’t get an abortion tax. I hope she spends her eternity beneath teddy the hut kennedy.