I mean, recently on fox news I heard about a group of African American teens who were wading in a river when something happened and they all drowned. The family was devastated of course. But the news story continued, and said how something like 79% of African Americans either can't swim or are very poor swimmers.
A friend that was a BR LEO once brought in a guy from the Clinton area named "Delicious Peters" (he made a copy of the guys' license to show around).
I don't believe the man named Delicious Peters is a joke. I remember my Dad talking about his turmoil years ago, saying he lived in the Walker area.....
If it's a hoax- someone went through a lot of trouble.
I used to work at a dry cleaners in high school and parts of college. We used to have this timmid white man in his mid 40's come in and tell us his name was "Jay". Some of the customers opted to open a credit account which required a copy of the drivers license. His real name on his drivers license was Off, Jack Heath. This is why he goes by Jay.
Also, I have a habbit of reading the arrest reports in the Daily Advertiser to see if anyone I know ended up in the locker. About 3 months ago I saw a woman listed for OWI and illegal lane change. Her name was something like Lajiniqua Marijuana Anderson. I assumed it HAD to be a misprint but I think that was her name.
Mostly Cajun said:Richard & Kelli H. present a new son, little Josai Kavan. Seems to me that if you’re going to pull up a biblical name, you’d use a biblical spelling. I must be wrong, though, because Terrell & Tabitha H. show their son, little Zachairah Terrell Lynn.
Jason & Carissa M. name their son as the offspring of a German cabbage, giving us little Kohlson Ty.
Darkus (!) S. & Teasha (!) W. bring their little daughter, Nevaeh Leeann. “That’s “Heaven” spelled backwards!” “oh yeah? Try “diputs ssabmud”, then!”
Miss Laken M. has a baby girl, little Marley Alise. We don’t know if she named her daughter after a reggae legend or a big yellow dog in a recent movie. By the way, know what a Jamaican says when he runs out of ganga? “De music sucks, mon!”
Justin S. & Laken (!) M. present their son, little Rylee Ray, because NOTHING says “masculine: like a name ending in two “e’s”.
Robert R. & Mariah D. bring their daughter, little Ava Monae. As in “You ava monae?” “No, I gots a Louisiana Purchase card, Medicaid, Section 8 housing and WIC.”
Justin & Lauren C. name their son after Gary, whoever he is, giving us little Garyson Wayne.
Travis H. & Diana C. chose a random last name for their son’s first name, giving us little Conner Thomas.
John & Rachel D. saved a letter with their son, little Jaxon Ried. and yes, I double-checked the spelling of that middle name.
Miss Brandi (with an “i”!) W. shows her baby girl, and since that “first name ending in “i”" worked so well with her, she tries it on her daughter, little Tayli Faith. Baby daddy? Strangely absent.
Shannon & Heidi R. twist a last name and come up with a first name for their new son, little Landyn Todd.
Miss Manuella V. figures that a bit of extraneous punctuation is what her baby girl needs, so we have little La’Dara Virgie. Apparently that’ll make up for the missing daddy’s name.
Miss Kizzie (anyone know where that name came from? Buehler? Anyone?) P. has the same idea about punctuation and tags her baby boy with M’Kenzie Elijah.
I saw another driver's license with the last name of Dickless .
Here's one for ya. Years ago I was working at a small retail outlet when in walks a very attractive, well dressed young lady, she saunters up to the counter, puts out her hand and exclaims "Hi, my name is Caress Cox, I work for so and so distributors....." I bit my lip till it bled. I still have her business card as a matter of fact.
I used to work at a dry cleaners in high school and parts of college. We used to have this timmid white man in his mid 40's come in and tell us his name was "Jay". Some of the customers opted to open a credit account which required a copy of the drivers license. His real name on his drivers license was Off, Jack Heath. This is why he goes by Jay.
Can't vouch for the claimed stats but my dad and I had a conversation on this very topic today. He's kinda guilty of this so I pinch him from time to time on it. There are those who consider some behaviors and interests "White" and a Black person would have to be "crazy" or "different" to indulge in it. Swimming doesn't really fall into this category but you won't see many Blacks swimming probably due to (A) Socio-Economics and (B) Culture. If they can spend the money to do other so-called "Black" things they could easily go to the YMCA and teach their kids or have their kids taught to swim.The victims had some interesting names.
Off topic, but WHY would to go INTO A RIVER if you CANNOT SWIM?
I mean teenagers are stupid, but their parents were there too, and the parents could not swim!
Swimming should be taught at public schools. It should be a mandatory part of the curriculum. It isn't really all that hard just to learn how to stay afloat, and it could save lives, probably more than the bogus CPR instruction they give in high school which would probably do more harm than good if we tried to use it.