How White People Subtly Reinforce White Supremacy When They Laugh at Black Names

[Humanist_Activist]

184. True, now allow me to go on a mini-rant about my last name, Scots-Irish, starts with Mc,

no one seems to understand that there are no spaces in it, yet yes, the third letter is capitalized, thank you very much. Never any consistency, on my Birth Certificate, there's no space, on my driver's license, there's no space between "Mc" and the rest, yet half the mail I get and any time people put it in a computer, it has a space in it. Or no capitalization after the M, its annoying.

Oh, and while on the subject, computers and names with apostrophes in them, oh my fucking god. See, in the past, apostrophes caused computer conniption fits, so were avoided, this means "O'Brien" becomes "Obrien" or "O Brien", etc. Well, nowadays, computers are smarter, and we supposedly don't have these issues any more, but I still come across the names entered in incorrectly. Its just more work for me. Not to mention sometimes, when many of these people entered this country, their name's were changed to something "off" from the traditional spellings, which adds more confusion.