General News Raven Symone on "Ghetto Sounding Names"

Does anyone even care what she has to say at this point? She's so out of touch with reality as it is. haha

 

I don't know what's more ridiculous; this persons almost racism or the names 'watermelondrea' or 'shatifah'

Unless those are normal names from foreign countries, in which case that's fine.

 

While I agree that parents should only be able to name their kids real names and should be banned from making shit up, Raven-Symone is not the person to be talking. If she walked into my job for an interview with that dumpster fire of a haircut, she'd be turned right around and walked out. She said that with a straight face when her hair looks like a flamingo.

 

Hahaha :lol: good one!

 

You really like to talk about racism against African-Americans, for obvious reasons. That's good, especially at your age.

 

Zen, the Raven Symone of the last decade is dead! Don't let yourself be shocked and disappointed. She is just trashed now.

And if we want to talk about a real nonsense, then why don't we address the fact that the majority of the people picking wild names for their children are neither "Ghetto" nor "Urban". Let's talk about the real epidemic:

 

Who is this this Raven-Symoné character? Never heard of her.

But she's speaking though the lens that wealth and its subsequent entitlements give a person.

I'd pelt her with watermelons, but I'm too big a fan of them , to waste them!

 

I kid you not, I knew a dude named "Laken". And I can anecdotally say that white people, especially the younger parents, name their kids some weird shit now. My birth name was intentionally misspelled to be "unique". I was a sad, sad child with a doofy female name that didn't come on a keychain. And how about all the poor kids with fucking names like Kourtnee or Aedan?

Then you have Gwyneth Paltrow's kid, Apple. And the name "Payzley" got really popular last year for some dumb reason. Crazy New U.S. Baby Names of 2014

 

Ugh. She needs to stop drinking whatever shit Bill Cosby gave her.

As for baby names, if I ever have kids they will have unique names. I refuse to raise a child named Tod--no offense to any Tod's out there, I'm sure you're all lovely people--I just don't want my child to grow up and have their aspirations be some dead end job in middle management.

I like the name Aedan that was mentioned. However, if I had to pick a name off the top of my head it'd be something like Augustus Trajan pronounced: ə-GUS-təs TRAY-jən. Why name a child after one Roman Emperor when you can name your child after two? No middle management for you, Augustus Trajan, you were meant to rule!

 

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That made my day!

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As I've said before, we ought to have a complete list of banned baby names. They must be approved in advance by the Social Security Administration. Parents these days just put all 26 letters in a hat and pull 5 out and that's the name the kid gets.

My brother has a classmate named "Imajyca." My aunt's friend named her kid "Alekz." Seriously, if you give your kid a name like that, you should be arrested.

 

Don't get me started on "edgy" names... not when you see what some of my students were "blessed with".

 

This is coming from someone named after a bird. I didn't like her when she was a kid and she's even more annoying now.

When it comes to names I love how creative some people can be... I'm sick of traditional names. The last thing we need is more Johns, Michaels, Joes etc.

Lastly, we need to stop judging people on the dumbest crap. If I owned a car dealership and if someone named Bitchface Jones walked in and I hired them and they sold 100 cars the first month why would I give a crap what their name is!?

 

First off: I have to admit I laughed at the name "Watermelondrea" it's probably the funniest fake name I've heard in a good while.

Second: If you're gonna choose who you hire based on names than you're probably an idiot who will fail in the business world.

Third: Children don't name themselves so in essence she's saying she'd punish people because their parents decided to give them unique names instead of making them just another "Tom" or "Mary" We have enough Toms already, let's try some wacky new names!

 

She's named after a bird so I don't even get why she's talking.

 

That's my boyfriend's mom's name!

 

I know right? lmao

 

So was this person good?

 

She was one of the most successful stars of old Disney channel as a result of being the lead in the highest rated show in Disney history. Disney wasn't my channel of preference as a child, but there is no question that the fact that she was a female and African American lead of that volume back in 2003 impacted many children during that time and caused executives to give more consideration to including diversity elsewhere. Unlike the majority of stars in old Disney, she also did not run wild and turn to drugs and alcohol; and many people from that generation of kids claimed that they found her coming out a couple of years back inspiring.

However, I am merely giving credit where credit is due. She can crawl into a hole and never come out for all I care.

 

Or we could just stop giving a damn what people name their children...