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Originally Posted by cRiPpLe_rOoStEr
Gotta have to agree on that. Some irresponsible parents, not only blacks, give embarassing names to their kids, sometimes doing that as some sort of "political" statement which sounds like they don't really want to integrate into mainstream society and would rather lock their kids in a bubble.
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Yes, it's not really the name itself so much as it's a signal that the kid probably has been indoctrinated with a certain set of beliefs, and that those beliefs are likely to cause the employer trouble down the road. For instance, if the kid has grown up believing in pervasive racism, then the employer has to worry that a justified dismissal will turn into a discrimination lawsuit. See the definition of self-fulfilling prophecy
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It was quite surprising for us as Brazilians to find out that fried chicken is often depicted as a stereotypically-black staple...
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Surprising to me, too, since I grew up in a part of the rural US northeast where there weren't any black people, and ate fried chicken just about every Sunday.