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La-A, it's pronounced La-Dash-A
My mom taught nursing and La-A was one of her students, she said her mother had her at 15 after dropping out of highschool her freshman year and wanted a unique name for her.
Edit Ok wow, I did not know that there was a racist aspect about this name. Sorry I didn't go into more detail originally. She was real, and from what little interaction I had with her she was a very nice and down to earth woman, who put herself through nursing school. I met her at the pinning ceremony because I always ran the audio for it to help my mom out. I didn't get to spend any meaningful time talking to her, but I heard her name called out when it was her turn on stage to get her pin and saw her come up and receive her nursing pin.
Again I had no idea about the racist aspect of this name, if I had I would have either given more detail upfront or just not posted. I've met a handful of people with interesting sounding and spelled names and didn't think anything about it when originally posting. I apologize if anyone felt I was being offensive.
Crazy to me that this is still going around. I remember hearing this myth back when I was in middle school almost 20 years ago.
Its almost certainly untrue and probably racist. Though there are women named Ladasha fully spelled out.
Oh this is way older than 20 years old. My grandpa was telling this joke like 50 years ago. He also was a school teacher, I suspect it has been circulating through schools for the last 60+ years.
What's with the
<!---comments that seem to add a level of snark to the article? Did some editor try an fail to insert these into the html source only?Thank you for letting me know about that, please see my edit to the original post.
Wait I also knew a La-a. Now I'm worried that there are multiple...
Did she say, "and the dash don't be silent"?
Please see my edit on the original post.