Reply #25: You know, they really are

[tishaLA]

and I say this as a supporter of Sen Obama. Oh, and the fact that they are racially coded doesn't bother me in the least.

As an example, Stuart Scott, an African American host on SportsCenter,uses those names:

BOB GARFIELD: One of those things is an occasional homey tribute to an outstanding player that invokes a sense of black community as extended family. It sounds like: Awww, he' making his kinfolk so proud! -- you know, um, Ray-Ray and Pookie, Lucretia, Moeesha, Baby Daddy and all of them. And where did that come from?

STUART SCOTT: Life. That came from life. That came from--every cookout, every barbecue that you go to with extended family -- we all know somebody named Pookie -- we all know a Knuck-Knuck , we-- there's a Ray-Ray -- isn't there a Ray-Ray in your family somewhere? In, in your family or your neighborhood there's a Ray-Ray. When there's a big barbecue, Ray-Ray is there, Moeesha Baby Daddy -- we as black America know those people. And that won't -- look - that one's for us. That's just for us. That's not for white America.

http://www.onthemedia.org/yore/transcripts/transcripts_112202_espn.html