Hurricane names-hillarious

[Spider-Bite]

While reading this, for the first few seconds I was offended because I thought it sounded kind of racist, but then I started laughing so hard, I had to share it.

Well, it appears our African-American friends have found yet something else to be pissed about. A black congresswoman reportedly complained that the names of hurricanes are all Caucasian sounding names.

She would prefer some names that reflect African-American culture, such as Chamiqua, Tanisha, Woeisha, Shaqueal, and Jamal.

She would also like the weather reports to be broadcast in language that street people can understand because one of the problems in New Orleans is that regular folks couldn't understand the seriousness of the situation due to the racially biased language of the weather report.

I can hear it now: A Houston weatherman says:

"Wazzup, mutha-fuggas! Hehr-i-cane Chamiqua be headin' fo' yo ass like Leroy on a crotch rocket! bicth be a category fo'! So grab yo' chirren, yo'Ho, be leavin yo crib, and head fo' da nearest guv'ment office fo yo FREE $hit!"

 

[Fran]

Edit -- The female ones just sound crazy, but Jamal isn't bad

 

[Spider-Bite]

Edit -- The female ones just sound crazy, but Jamal isn't bad

I think there was a hurricane named Jamal actually now that I think about it.

If I recall correctly there has only been one black congresswoman. It was the one who punched that police officer, and then cried race afterwards, and then after loosing re-election her bodyguards started shooting out racist remarks against jews and calling all us white people a bunch of crackers.

 

[Fran]

I didn't have a pair of shoes this one black woman wanted the other day at work... She proceeded to call me a "Prejudice Ass," and a "Stupid-ass Ho."

I was laughing so hard.

 

[chaseter]

I don't think I would be scared of hurricane Dashikwa.

 

[Mee]

Haha! Awesome.

"We want the harbringers of death and destruction to be more like us!

Also, hip hop weather, fo shizzle.

 

[Kyalesyin]

Who cares what the damn things are called? All anyone's ever interested in the damage stats afterwards...

 

[Kaboom]

i would appreciate a link to where you got that info from SB...bc its priceless.

 

[MaskedManJRK]

Who cares what the damn things are called? All anyone's ever interested in the damage stats afterwards...

The voice of reason in the sea of madness. ^^^

 

[Kyalesyin]

The voice of reason in the sea of madness. ^^^

Reasonable? Me? If you count sitting in my nice, comfy armchair on a hurricane-free island and giggling to myself as reasonable, sure...

 

[Dope Nose]

http://www.snopes.com/racial/language/hurricane.asp

Origins: This racist take on a Congresswoman's actual comments began circulating on the Internet in September 2005, possibly as a reaction in kind to widespread negative characterizations of African-Americans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

The practice of bestowing given names upon hurricanes began in 1953 when the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) started naming tropical storms after women. That organization had discovered that dubbing hurricanes with short, distinctive given names was a quicker and less error-prone method of referring to storms than was the older, more cumbersome latitude-longitude identification approach. After feminist groups protested over the implied slur that women alone were tempestuous and unpredictable, men's names were also used beginning in 1979.

In July 2003, Texas representative Sheila Jackson Lee (a member of the NAACP and the Congressional Black Caucus, and an ardent supporter of the current civil-rights leadership) criticized the weather establishment for its selection of names with which to christen hurricanes, stating that "All racial groups should be represented." Her comment was prompted by the 2003 list of hurricane names, which for the first time included French and Spanish appellations (derived from languages spoken in areas that border the Atlantic Ocean, where such storms occur), and she expressed the hope that in the future such lists "would try to be inclusive of African American names" as well.

The National Weather Service's National Hurricane Center publishes the yearly list of names to be used for identifying storms. The lists compiled for use through 2010 do not appear to include any distinctly African-American monikers.

The racist nature of the message quoted above has cost the job of at least one person who passed it along via e-mail. In 2005, a contract employee for Cobb County, Georgia was fired for sending it through the county's computer system. Cobb spokesman Robert Quigley said of the incident, "Cobb County has been embarrassed by the actions of [name of employee] and apologizes for any offense."

 

[ShadowBoxing]

I seriously don't think the black community wants to hear "Today Jamal killed 863 people" on the news.

 

[BRUTAL]

I seriously don't think the black community wants to hear "Today Jamal killed 863 people" on the news.

Must.... avoid.... terribly.... racist...... joke....

 

[Spider-Bite]

As a white man I'm going to start complaining about how white people are compared to horrible hurricanes. I think their names are racist and I'm offended. Haha.

 

[chaseter]

I seriously don't think the black community wants to hear "Today Jamal killed 863 people" on the news.

Bwahahahat: That hurricane would never get anywhere because it would constantly be stopped by the police.

 

[terry78]

I knew that thing had to be a joke. No one would complain about that, regardless of how ghetto they are.

 

[Abaddon]

we should start having more sexual and tasty sounding hurricane names like Milano, and Sausalito. Yum.

 

[ShadowBoxing]

How about REAALLLY white sounding Hurricanes like Regenald and Alawishes.

 

[Le_fantome]

It's not really funny, :/

 

[Crooklyn]

Combine this with the Alabama news sightings of Leprechauns:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nda_OSWeyn8


....and you get something that Black people will be really ashamed of.

 

[Spidey-Bat]

I never knew English was a racist language.

 

[Deep Thinkin'!]

Yeah... I can just imagine the news crew talking in "ghetto" terms... then I would actually watch it.

 

[Sun_Down]

While they're at it, why not get some diversity in the infectious disease-naming game too? I'm sick of getting diagnosed with those bigoted, cracker-ass diseases!

 

[Manic]

Hurricanes are dangerous natural disasters. They plow through beautiful land and communities, and leave only destruction in their wake. Their claimed the lives, jobs, and homes of countless black people in New Orleans.

Clearly, they should have white names.

 

[Sun_Down]

Hurricanes are dangerous natural disasters. They plow through beautiful land and communities, and leave only destruction in their wake. Their claimed the lives, jobs, and homes of countless black people in New Orleans.

Clearly, they should have white names.

Awww snap!