'Black' hurricane names

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Do devastating hurricanes need help from affirmative action?

A member of Congress apparently thinks so, and is demanding the storms be given names that sound "black."

The congressional newspaper the Hill reported this week that Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, feels that the current names are too "lily white," and is seeking to have better representation for names reflecting African-Americans and other ethnic groups.


"All racial groups should be represented," Lee said, according to the Hill. She hoped federal weather officials "would try to be inclusive of African-American names."

A sampling of popular names that could be used include Keisha, Jamal and Deshawn, according to the paper.

Jackson Lee's call is brewing its own storm of response across America.

A WorldNetDaily reader wrote:

"You can be sure if there were too many 'black' names assigned to hurricanes, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee would instead be complaining that this practice unfairly stereotypes blacks as violent. Let's hope this silly storm blows over!"

Another, Greg Cook, says, "This is ridiculous. How about naming the storms after gang members, or infamous criminals? How about not having any name at all associated with hurricanes?"

Regina Roberston writes: "We should only name hurricanes for foreign officials who are in hiding or considered to be terrorists, or assisting terrorists. We could name the hurricanes after known illegal immigrants, since they are both unwanted and unwelcome anyway. Or how about we only choose French names, so the fear of hurricanes will be put to rest?"

Radio talk-show giant Rush Limbaugh says he was having dinner with his wife when he first learned of the proposal.

"I just threw up my hands. I said, 'Has it come to this now?'" Limbaugh recounted on his show.

"There's discrimination and actually elected officials wandering around worried about the discrimination in the name of hurricanes. And hurricanes are destructive. You know nobody's very excited when a hurricane's heading their way, and yet here she is demanding that hurricanes be named after black people.

"You know it used to be that hurricanes were named only after women because they were destructive and unpredictable. And that's the reason. The feminists grew upset about that, demanded that hurricanes be named after men, and so now, the civil rights leaders are demanding black names for hurricanes.

Limbaugh continued his analysis, saying it was not the mainstream populace responsible for what he called the "Balkanization" of race relations in America.

"It is these elected black leaders, the civil-rights coalitions – they're the ones that keep causing all this racial divide, they're the ones that keep calling attention to all this," said Limbaugh. "They're the ones that keep stirring this pot. They're the ones who don't want there to be any colorblind society. They're the ones who keep being agitated and trying to agitate others over all this, and now it's descended into the meaningless element of the names of hurricanes."

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, hurricanes were for centuries named after the Catholic saints' days on which the storms fell.

In 1953, the United States abandoned as confusing a two-year-old plan to name storms by a phonetic alphabet (Able, Baker, Charlie) when a new, international phonetic alphabet was introduced. That year, weather services began using female names for storms.

The practice of naming hurricanes solely after women came to an end in 1978 when men's and women's names were included in the Eastern North Pacific storm lists. In 1979, male and female names were included in lists for the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico.

[Element4040]

I can't totally disagree with Sheila Jackson Lee about the names all being white. However it seems to me like she should be spending better use of her time. Leave this type of thing to the ACLU or the Rainbow Coalition. I don't want my representatives wasting their time on something so trivial.

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Originally posted by Element4040
I can't totally disagree with Sheila Jackson Lee about the names all being white. However it seems to me like she should be spending better use of her time. Leave this type of thing to the ACLU or the Rainbow Coalition. I don't want my representatives wasting their time on something so trivial.

I have meet a couple of black and white women named nancy, so does this make it a white name or a black name? I just find it retard because names are generic to race, anyone can have any name....it's just depends on your parents

[Element4040]

Yeah, I see your point...... I've been sitting here trying to think of exclusively white names and every one I think of I can think of at least one black person with the name.

Sherman - Clumps
Bubba - well, Forest Gump
Cletus - Many black men in Alabama

those are just a few examples: White people just aren't that creative with names.

However, I can think of several black and hispanic names etc.. right off hand, but then that would be reverse discrimination now wouldn't it.


Seems to me like most of the names they use are pretty un-biased in race.

Here is a list:

Bill - any race
Claudette - well maybe a little white
Danny - any race
Erika - any race
Fabian - I've actually known a black Fabian
Grace - any race
Henri - sounds French?
Isabel - okay now that's pretty white
Juan - umm Hispanic
Kate - any race
Larry - any race
Mindy - ummm borderline?
Nicholas - any race
Odette - who the hell knows?
Peter - any race
Rose - any race, this is an old fashioned name
Sam - any race
Teresa - any race
Victor - any race
Wanda - any race, although most Wanda's I've met have been black

You know the more I look at this the more it becomes obvious that this lady has no business as a Representative of this, or any other State. She is wasting time and obviously has too much time on her hands.

Take a look at this link from the National weather service. Notice the names change every year and there is a chart with all the names through 2007.



Ophelia????? That sounds pretty black to me.

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutnames.shtml

So now we're going to have hurricanes named Shanique and Porsche??

[Ryan]

I think "Sheila" is more of a white name. I've known about four our five in my day and they've all been white.

We were having a terrific year. That is, until Hurricane LaTron decimated our shores.

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Oh saw this elsewhere today...farily amusing

A small tropical storm that doesn’t amount to much could be named Hurricane Puff Diddy. If some hurricane is developing a path that could take around the South of Florida and bring it in the back door, we could name that one Hurricane Kobe.

...
By the way, did you hear about Hurricane J-Lo? The real damage was done by the trailing edge.

Originally posted by -m-
We were having a terrific year. That is, until Hurricane LaTron decimated our shores.

Don't forget Hurricane Mercedes, that one really fucked things up!!

[johnny861]

This is so Ghey


Just give the hurricanes Serial Numbers instead of names... Problem Solved

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Originally posted by johnny861
This is so Ghey


Just give the hurricanes Serial Numbers instead of names... Problem Solved

that would be too easy

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Originally posted by Element4040
Here is a list:

Bill - any race I go to school with a black William...
Claudette - well maybe a little white
Danny - any race
Erika - any race Badu, anyone?
Fabian - I've actually known a black Fabian
Grace - any race
Henri - sounds French?
Isabel - okay now that's pretty white Spanish
Juan - umm Hispanic
Kate - any race that's a pretty white name
Larry - any race I used to think this was the epitome of white guy names until a met a really cool black Larry!
Mindy - ummm borderline?
Nicholas - any race
Odette - who the hell knows? I used to work with a black lady named OdettA
Peter - any race you gotta admit thats pretty white dude, but I know a few Hispanics and Asians named Peter
Rose - any race, this is an old fashioned name
Sam - any race
Teresa - any race
Victor - any race
Wanda - any race, although most Wanda's I've met have been black
Ophelia????? That sounds pretty black to me. that's actually a Hispanic name

I must say that this is a very trivial issue. I would much rather see Blacks, Hispanics, and other minorities equally represented in the media and in the government than in hurricane names.

But, yeh, watch out for Hurricane LaKeisha. Coming soon to wipe out a shore near YOU!

Originally posted by Element4040




Ophelia????? That sounds pretty black to me.

actually, shakespeare invented the name "ophelia". she is the heroine of "hamlet" who drowns herself in the river when hamlet denies her love.

[Element4040]

Originally posted by TrixieBella
actually, shakespeare invented the name "ophelia". she is the heroine of "hamlet" who drowns herself in the river when hamlet denies her love.

It's true what they say, "You learn something new everyday"

thx

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Originally posted by call*me*jenny
I must say that this is a very trivial issue. I would much rather see Blacks, Hispanics, and other minorities equally represented in the media and in the government than in hurricane names.

But, yeh, watch out for Hurricane LaKeisha. Coming soon to wipe out a shore near YOU!

they are in the media all the time...see Kobe is in the mediw today and he is black