Scary. I can honestly say that if a squad of beasts like that attacked me, I'd fear for my life and open up on them, shooting to kill. Then I would spend the rest of my life in jail. In my state anyway. The knife attack would clear me maybe but they'd all be laid out before that.
Police in Georgia have identified four family members accused of stabbing and robbing an Applebee's server earlier in the week. The women, identified Friday (July 13) as Lakisha Boyd, Keterah Boyd, Demetrius Boyd and Lashondra Boyd, are suspected of beating a waitress and stealing her tips, after she accidentally brushed up against one of their legs.
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(Short Spike)
Can anyone please explain the names of the perpetrators?
We do not have many african people in Denmark, but it seems those are some hardcore afro-american names.
Where did the trend of crazy names start?
(Old Spike)
The Afrocentrism movement of the 1970s saw the advent of African names among African-Americans, as well as names imagined to be African sounding. Names such as Ashanti have African origins.[1] The Black Power movement inspired many to show pride in their heritage. Harvard University sociologist Stanley Lieberson noted that in 1977, the name "Kizzy" rose dramatically in popularity following the use of the name in the book and television series Roots.[1][8]
By the 1970s and 1980s, it had become common within African-American culture to invent new names. Many of the invented names took elements from popular existing names. Prefixes such as La/Le, Da/De, Ra/Re, or Ja/Je and suffixes such as -ique/iqua, -isha, and -aun/-awn are common, as well as inventive spellings for common names. The book Baby Names Now: From Classic to Cool—The Very Last Word on First Names places the origins of "La" names in African-American culture in New Orleans.[9]
The name LaKeisha is typically considered American in origin but has elements drawn from both French and African roots. Other names—for example, LaTanisha, DeShawn, JaMarcus, DeAndre, and Shaniqua—were created in the same way. Punctuation marks are seen more often within African-American names than other American names, such as the names Mo'nique and D'Andre.[1][10]
In his dictionary of black names, Cenoura asserts that in the early 21st century, black names are "unique names that come from combinations of two or more names, names constructed with common prefixes and suffixes...'conjugated' with a formula..."[11] "Da", "La", and related sounds may originate from the French spoken in Louisiana. Attached to a common name such as Sean and spelled phonetically, one obtains "DaShawn". Diminutive suffixes from French, Spanish and Scottish such as "ita" may be combined directly with prefixes or to a name, as is often found in white naming or nicknaming. Conventions followed usually make the persons gender easily identifiable. Following Spanish, masculine names often end in "o", e.g. "Carmello," while feminine names end with "a", e.g. "Jeretta". Following, Irish, French and Italian, apostrophes may be used, e.g. "D'Andre" and "Rene'e". Two names may be concatenated, e.g. "Raymond" and "Yvonne" might become "Rayvon".