Stereotypically White Names

I read a lot of news. There is a commonly held belief that white people do not have unusual names. That belief does not hold up to a day's worth of reading news.

[stereotypicallywhitenames]

Abcde Redford

Mocked by gate agent. Pronounced "ab-city".

[stereotypicallywhitenames]

Mathu Dwain Karcher

Alleged to have menaced a black person for being black. Karcher allegedly tried to get his pit bull to attack a black man. The pit bull declined.

[stereotypicallywhitenames]

Arvin Gibbs

Burned a sweatshirt.

[stereotypicallywhitenames]

Toscha Sponsler

Escape artist, the reason Lufkin Police installed new partitions in their police cars.

[stereotypicallywhitenames]

Cleon Brown

Police officer suing the city of Hastings, Michigan after he took an ancestry test, shared he was partially of African descent, and then - shocker - was allegedly harassed mercilessly.

[stereotypicallywhitenames]

Giff Constable

Entrepreneur. Author. Probably writes bios like this.

[stereotypicallywhitenames]

Hunter Jobbins

Victimized by “hungry and sorry” KitKat thief, according to them.

[stereotypicallywhitenames]

Kaylub Fawley

Videographer and publisher of someone throwing a child that wasn’t theirs off a bridge.

[stereotypicallywhitenames]

Timbo Stillinger

This technically wasn’t in the news, it was in an REI mailer sent to my home, which I feel is all the more cause to post it.

[stereotypicallywhitenames]

Kale Williams

Reporter for The Oregonian. Come on.

[stereotypicallywhitenames]

Aleta Arthur Trauger

Tennessee Judge.

[stereotypicallywhitenames]

Westlund Sasser

Child of American Idol hopefuls

[stereotypicallywhitenames]

Saylor James Cutler

Jay Cutler and Kristin Cavallari’s daughter. Named after a dog.

[stereotypicallywhitenames]

Brooks Buffington

Co-founder of monstrous anonymous college slander app Yik Yak.

[stereotypicallywhitenames]

A depressing study of how people respond to stereotypically black and white names

"I've never been so disgusted by my own data."

[stereotypicallywhitenames]

Moxie CrimeFighter Jillette

One of Penn Jillette’s two kids. The other one’s named Zolten.

[stereotypicallywhitenames]

Maykayla (and Latasha) Dyer

Eight-year-old shot to death by her eleven-year-old neighbor after Maykayla declined to let him play with her puppy. Latasha is Maykayla’s mother.