Jy’Quale Samari Grable, 21, was found guilty in U.S. District Court in November of conspiracy to commit robbery, robbery, and first-degree premeditated murder.
-Denise
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I'm blaming that mini-series Roots and its main character Kunte Kinte for these weird-ass names.
A few months ago I found my old high school's yearbooks online and I was going through it, looking for old forgotten friends from the Classes of 1976 and 1977. One of the things that struck me were the black kid's names.
We had black kids named William, James, Brian, Timothy, Mark, shit like that. We even had a Nigel and if that ain't the whitest fucking name you've ever heard of, I don't know what is. There was maybe one Tyrone. Regular names. No weird or unpronounceable ones. Oh sure, the black kids had nicknames like Casper, Pookie and Slick, but they all answered to their given names if you hollered at them.
Then that series Roots came out in 1977, and 10 years later we started seeing kids named D'Kay and Boo'gernose and WelFarious in the school systems. Now it's unusual to see a young black man with a normal name.
