La-What?

> Racism, however, it is not, any more
> than it is racism for me to predict that the Lakeisha on my
> class roster will turn out to be black.

I wonder what future linguists will make of the history of these odd
black female names. Do they all go back to 'Lafayette' used as a first
name and reinterpreted as Romance feminines, or what? (Hope I won't
get hammered for thinking this is a subject).


Torsten