People changing their behavior to be more "white" is just what the racists want, though.

I get what you're saying, but according to your own story, Messiah wouldn't get hired by this person regardless of his name. Because if "Martin" was called in for an interview, this horrible person wouldn't have hired him anyway.

Sooooo, really the problem is racist assholes and not the names people choose to give…

See, I guess it's because I'm in Philadelphia and our names are "weirder", but Messiah, spelled correctly, wouldn't even make me blink.

Counting 3...2...1...before someone chimes in to tell us that their sister's friend's mom is a nurse and TOTALLY does know a mom who named her child "L-a".

I am speaking for myself and all the other little white suburban girls that I would giggle with over such names. Perhaps you were born perfect. I wasn't and am ok with admitting it.

So we're back in a U.S. where the names of people of color can be arbitrarily changed by white folk in power. Let's party like it's 1799!

You certainly are the Messiah of cuteness! I don't care what any silly pants judge says!

Everyone's so busy complaining about Piper, that no one seems to realize that the worst character on the show by a landslide is her best friend, the pregnant chick. Every time she talks my face spasms in a painful combination of rolling my eyes, gagging and laughing in disbelief.

Tips on writing a cover letter that doesn't suck, please. Thanks.

ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK MARATHON!!!!!

I have always done the "right" thing with employers, even if it was to my harm. But my advice to young people is to do what is best for you, because your employer will always do what's best for it. I wouldn't be stupid about it, like Weiner's intern was (who does her confession benefit?). My perfect example of this…

Job interviews are like going on dates with people you met off the internet. They say they want a second date but then never return a text or a call.

Dodged a bullet, dude.

My sister and her beau have a wonderful rule. When they sit down, both smartphones get placed on the table face down, on silent. The first to turn theirs over pays.

I'm typing this off of my iPhone, so please excuse any typos. I havent commented in forever, but I saw this and I just want to say that you should leave. My father is emotionally abusive towards my mother and his children, and I wish she'd left him when they were only dating. That would mean that I wouldn't have been…

I have been there! It's hard when there's nothing so solid to grasp on to to obviously call abuse — he never hit me, never sexually forced me, etc etc etc. But this is pretty much my relationship with my first boyfriend. He turned all the things I said around on me, invalidated my feelings, made me feel that I was…

I've thrown out my scale (ok, not thrown out, just hidden away). I was weighing myself every day and realized that when I didn't weigh myself I felt that I looked pretty hot and bangin. Then i'd weigh myself and get all sad. So I said FUCK IT! I know there will come a time in my life when I will look back at my 32…

Then he accused her of being addicted to pain pills and desperately attempting to cling on to a pathetic shred of notoriety via increasingly outlandish statements.

I know, right? Let's just change the term to "prairie niggers." Also a term with a long historical history, and it pretty much means the same thing!

Yeah, those POOR YANKEES, all huddled together in their poxy government blankets, moaning over their dead women and children in the snows of North Dakota, their ancient ancestral lands taken from them to mine gold...