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[–] CrudOMatic 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Most of them are bastardized spellings of product names (Lemonjello, Orangejello), straight-out product names (Noxema, Marijuana Pepsi Jackson), shit just thrown together (Meadowlark Lemon), or shit that they think sounds African (LaQueesha, Shenaynay).

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[–] 0110001111 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

Yeah I was watching the movie on freakonomics about black people and their names. They went on a whole charade about the multiple reasons there are so many variations of different names. Not once was the simplest definition ever given: low literacy rates and uneducated parents who never reached anything past high school.