Schoolgirl, 16, forced to change her own name after woke classmates claimed it was racist

[rangerrebew]

Schoolgirl, 16, forced to change her own name after woke classmates claimed it was racist
Story by Sophie Little • 10h

A 16-year-old schoolgirl has been forced to change her own name after her classmates claimed it was racist.

Dixie, from Tennessee, told her mother she wanted to change her name because she was being mocked by other children at school accusing her of "racism" and supporting the Confederacy.
 
The term Dixie came from the song "Dixie's Land" which became the South's unofficial anthem in the 19th century.

It can also refer to the southern states which formed the Confederate States of America.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/schoolgirl-16-forced-to-change-her-own-name-after-woke-classmates-claimed-it-was-racist/ar-AA1QpgO6?ocid=widgetonlockscreen&cvid=0f8f3eb0c0614855f541ceba80e5ea1a&ei=44

[rangerrebew]

Being from lifelong democrat families is very likely of her woke classmates since, being from Tennessee, opens the possibility their families fought for the south.  If that isn't the pot calling kettle black, nothing is.   I wonder if they harass boys named Robert or Jefferson?

[mountaineer]

... The most straightforward explanation for the South-Dixie connection concerns the Mason and Dixon Line, a boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that was drawn in 1767 by English surveyors Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon. The line was originally crafted to settle a border dispute between the two colonies, but it later became an informal demarcation point between the southern slave states and the free states to the north. With this in mind, it’s likely that “Dixie” and “Dixieland” first emerged as slang terms to refer to the territory south of Jeremiah Dixon’s boundary line.

Yet another theory traces Dixie’s roots to Louisiana. In the years before the Civil War, the state’s Citizens’ Bank of New Orleans issued ten-dollar notes with “dix”—the French word for “ten”—written on one side. The widely circulated bills became known as “Dixies,” and some argue the term was later appropriated as a geographical nickname, first for New Orleans and Louisiana and then for the entire South. ...

History.com
The term "Dixie" predates the song, in all likelihood.

[Smokin Joe]

 

Well, then, isn't Muhammad (or variants) racist? No shame in someone who advocated putting to the sword or conquering anyone who didn't think like him?

Not that I'm trying to remove a 'tell', but really.

How about all those guys named after a toilet?

[AllThatJazzZ]

I'll take my stand to live and die in Dixie.

[rustynail]

Change her name to Mason?

[DB]

Well, then, isn't Muhammad (or variants) racist? No shame in someone who advocated putting to the sword or conquering anyone who didn't think like him?

Not that I'm trying to remove a 'tell', but really.

How about all those guys named after a toilet?

Mr. Crapper?

[Lando Lincoln]

Dick would probably be a no-go.

[Wingnut]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaHEfJApEVM

[Free Vulcan]

I guess I'd be more upset that my mom gave me a stripper name.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

Does Dixie still make paper cups?

[Wingnut]

I guess I'd be more upset that my mom gave me a stripper name.

It was her Dad!  LOL.  Which make perfect sense!

[Cyber Liberty]

Does Dixie still make paper cups?

Not for long....

[240B]

Jeremiah Dixon (died 1777, Durham, Durham, Eng.) was a British surveyor who, working with fellow surveyor Charles Mason, established the boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania, known since as the Mason and Dixon Line.

All that is true but still, in the life of today 'Dixie' is kind of a stripper name. I would not name a child with carrying all that history.
Even so, there are thousands of people in America who are named Robert E. Lee.

[MeganC]

I once knew a Hindu girl named Swastika. She got crap from the school, too. I told my friend Jon about it and he rained down hell on the school and the school district.

And he was a survivor of Thierisenstadt.

[mountaineer]

'Dixie' is kind of a stripper name. I would not name a child with carrying all that history.

Hey now.

[Texas Yellow Rose]

"Although known as a Southern anthem, “Dixie’s Land,” aka “Dixie” was written for the minstrel stage by Daniel Decatur Emmett in New York City (in 1859). The song was so popular in the South that it became generally accepted as the rallying song of the Confederacy.

Abraham Lincoln loved the song since he first heard it at a show by the Rumsey and Newcomb Minstrels in Chicago in 1860. According to a fellow attorney who attended the show with him, after “Dixie’s Land” was played, Lincoln clapped and shouted “Let’s have it again! Let’s have it again!”
https://balladofamerica.org/dixies-land/

  I'll be danged it I'd change my name!!

[Cyber Liberty]

"Although known as a Southern anthem, “Dixie’s Land,” aka “Dixie” was written for the minstrel stage by Daniel Decatur Emmett in New York City (in 1859). The song was so popular in the South that it became generally accepted as the rallying song of the Confederacy.

Abraham Lincoln loved the song since he first heard it at a show by the Rumsey and Newcomb Minstrels in Chicago in 1860. According to a fellow attorney who attended the show with him, after “Dixie’s Land” was played, Lincoln clapped and shouted “Let’s have it again! Let’s have it again!”
https://balladofamerica.org/dixies-land/

  I'll be danged it I'd change my name!!

"Dixie" is a proud name!  If I was a girl and that was my name, I wouldn't change it either!

[Fishrrman]

Don't change your name, Ms. Dixie.

Change SCHOOLS.

[berdie]

"Although known as a Southern anthem, “Dixie’s Land,” aka “Dixie” was written for the minstrel stage by Daniel Decatur Emmett in New York City (in 1859). The song was so popular in the South that it became generally accepted as the rallying song of the Confederacy.

Abraham Lincoln loved the song since he first heard it at a show by the Rumsey and Newcomb Minstrels in Chicago in 1860. According to a fellow attorney who attended the show with him, after “Dixie’s Land” was played, Lincoln clapped and shouted “Let’s have it again! Let’s have it again!”
https://balladofamerica.org/dixies-land/

  I'll be danged it I'd change my name!!

Nor would I!! People need to get a grip.