{"id":72962,"date":"2012-04-04T04:31:16","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T10:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=72962"},"modified":"2018-08-21T15:45:41","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T21:45:41","slug":"a-trayvon-by-any-other-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=72962","title":{"rendered":"A Trayvon by Any Other Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/takimag.com\/article\/a_trayvon_by_any_other_name_steve_sailer\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Sailer<\/a> isn&#8217;t afraid to ask about the elephant in the room.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The win-win solution against stereotyping is for blacks to stop living down to their profiles.<\/p>\n<p>So what can grownups do to discourage black youths from acting like knuckleheads?<\/p>\n<p>All else being equal, does naming your child after an English poet give him a better chance in life than making up some Ghetto Fabulous name to advertise your commitment to keeping it real?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Couldn&#8217;t hurt. There&#8217;s a reason why Asians either give their kids an additional &#8216;Western&#8217; name or the kids adopt a &#8216;Western&#8217; nickname on their own, and I&#8217;m sure it has something to do with the fact that Asians are on average smarter than you and me (and people named Trayvon).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Yet Fryer and Levitt can\u2019t find much evidence on an individual level that naming your child D\u2019Qisykha will make her worse off than all the other problems she will inherit merely from being the daughter of somebody who might name her daughter D\u2019Qisykha.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>True that.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Higher-class blacks tend to give their children less self-defeating names. \u201cDanielle\u201d is a clever compromise that shows up three times out of the 142 names of Florida\u2019s black 2012 National Achievement Scholars. The \u201cD\u201d sound is Afro-loyal, but white employers won\u2019t automatically perceive a Danielle\u2019s job application as a discrimination lawsuit waiting to happen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There&#8217;s a reason that Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, and Clarence Thomas are more successful than your local Tawanda, Latrina, Antwon, or Trayvon.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s the Swahili for &#8216;unemployed&#8217;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Sailer isn&#8217;t afraid to ask about the elephant in the room. The win-win solution against stereotyping is for blacks to stop living down to their profiles. So what can grownups do to discourage black youths from acting like knuckleheads? All else being equal, does naming your child after an English poet give him a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-think-about-it"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72962"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171086,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72962\/revisions\/171086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}