"Jacquetta". The problem began on Day #1. Why begin a child's life with a caricature name that limits their potential? Certainly any given "Jacquetta" has a chance to make something of him or herself. But why risk strapping that limitation to a child?
The ghettoization of a child from birth, and ghetto 'culture' is not something that should or needs to be encouraged. So society ends up with plenty of little angels like
Trayvon Martin causing havoc.
There's a sociology study in there somewhere. How many black girls given the names Shaniqua or Kenesha, et.al., at birth are now merely baby mommies with no job skills, living off the largess of the taxpayer? How many black girls named Janet or Cynthia do the same?
/Do I have to keep denouncing myself or is there some sort of
carte blanche mea culpa* that I can throw out there?
* Now you don't see French and Latin phrases italicized one right after the other as above too often, usually it's one language at a time. But it's the thought that counts.
