{"id":163,"date":"2006-10-11T16:09:40","date_gmt":"2006-10-12T00:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/godammit.com\/2006\/10\/11\/shanice-vs-caitlin\/"},"modified":"2007-05-27T20:15:56","modified_gmt":"2007-05-28T04:15:56","slug":"shanice-vs-caitlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/shanice-vs-caitlin\/","title":{"rendered":"Shanice vs Caitlin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"kiesha.jpg\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/kiesha.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image162\" height=\"96\" alt=\"kiesha.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/kiesha.thumbnail.jpg?fit=640%2C96\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Call me racist, but I love Black names. In my own defense, I love yuppie names too, like Hunter and Madison. But Black names give me a particular thrill, like the time I heard a mother in Ross for Less scream at her kid: \u201cChanel, you get over here!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freakonomics.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Freakonomics<\/a>, there is a chapter about baby names, and the effect of giving a child a \u201csuper-Black&#8221; name. The research covered 16 million births, over the last 25 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe data show that, on average, a person with a distinctively black name\u2013whether it is a woman named Imani or a man named DeShawn\u2013does have a worse life outcome than a woman named Molly or a man named Jake. <em>But it isn&#8217;t the fault of his or her name<\/em>. If two black boys, Jake Williams and DeShawn Williams, are born in the same neighborhood and into the same familial and economic circumstances, they would likely have similar life outcomes. But the kind of parents who name their son Jake don&#8217;t tend to live in the same neighborhoods or share economic circumstances with the kind of parents who name their son DeShawn. And that&#8217;s why, on average, a boy named Jake will tend to earn more money and get more education than a boy named DeShawn. DeShawn&#8217;s name is an indicator\u2013but not a cause\u2013of his life path.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Somehow, I feel this should be instinctive knowledge. But it\u2019s an interesting subject and here is an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2116449\/#sb2116453\" target=\"_blank\">excerpt<\/a>. Here is a list of the top 20 \u201cBlackest&#8221; and \u201cWhitest&#8221; boys\u2019 names (you can see the girls <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2116449\/sidebar\/2116453\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>) from the California data:<\/p>\n<p>The 20 Whitest Boy Names<\/p>\n<p>1. Jake<br \/>\n2. Connor<br \/>\n3. Tanner<br \/>\n4. Wyatt<br \/>\n5. Cody<br \/>\n6. Dustin<br \/>\n7. Luke<br \/>\n8. Jack<br \/>\n9. Scott<br \/>\n10. Logan<br \/>\n11. Cole<br \/>\n12. Lucas<br \/>\n13. Bradley<br \/>\n14. Jacob<br \/>\n15. Garrett<br \/>\n16. Dylan<br \/>\n17. Maxwell<br \/>\n18. Hunter<br \/>\n19. Brett<br \/>\n20. Colin<\/p>\n<p>The 20 Blackest Boy Names<\/p>\n<p>1. DeShawn<br \/>\n2. DeAndre<br \/>\n3. Marquis<br \/>\n4. Darnell<br \/>\n5. Terrell<br \/>\n6. Malik<br \/>\n7. Trevon<br \/>\n8. Tyrone<br \/>\n9. Willie<br \/>\n10. Dominique<br \/>\n11. Demetrius<br \/>\n12. Reginald<br \/>\n13. Jamal<br \/>\n14. Maurice<br \/>\n15. Jalen<br \/>\n16. Darius<br \/>\n17. Xavier<br \/>\n18. Terrance<br \/>\n19. Andre<br \/>\n20. Darryl<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Call me racist, but I love Black names. In my own defense, I love yuppie names too, like Hunter and Madison. But Black names give me a particular thrill, like the time I heard a mother in Ross for Less &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/godammit.com\/shanice-vs-caitlin\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t44M-2D","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}