They Kept Getting Her Name Wrong... Then This Went Viral
They Kept Getting Her Name Wrong.. Then This Went Viral features a viral clip where a mother accuses medical staff of racism for mispronouncing her seven-letter name, arguing they should prioritize complex terms like "fibromyalgia" over her identity. She claims this reflects a broader rejection of Black culture and invokes the "angry black woman" stereotype, while the video's edited narrative shifts blame entirely to the staff, suggesting their frustration was actually misplaced defense of her mother's honor. Ultimately, the incident highlights how microaggressions in healthcare can escalate into viral controversies that obscure systemic issues with performative outrage. [Automatically generated summary]
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Crazy Names and White People00:08:03
So this woman is pissed off because white people don't know how to pronounce her name.
Oh man, it's probably not that fault.
You probably got a crazy name.
Check this out.
Doctor's appointment today and I go through the little check-in desk or whatever.
Then I'm on my way to registration.
This lady, I guess she was doing like mobile registration or whatever.
So she tell me, are you so-and-so?
I'm like, yes.
And she's like, okay, I'll get you right here.
She get me in, right?
So then she sent me to another registration desk and she's talking about some, oh, I'm just going to call you by your last name because that'll be easier for me.
Strike mother one.
Okay.
Okay, Rebecca.
You got me up, but I'm going to let you slide.
The next lady, she going through all my stuff.
Another lady.
She gets my little email part.
And she was like looking at it for a minute.
And I'm looking at her like, okay, I know what's going to come.
Okay.
You'd have seen this 3,000 times looking at the shit.
But this lady said my last name or whatever.
She already just set the tone for discussing my name or whatever.
So, okay.
So she goes, can you just tell me your email so we can confirm it?
I said, no, ma'am.
I said, sound it out.
I know it's about my name.
Sound it out.
What?
See, it's okay.
Can you just give me an email?
Because I'm having a heart.
No, you're not.
You ain't even look at it that long.
You ain't even try.
I said, try.
Sound it out.
What's wrong with her?
She finally got it.
I said, see, you did it.
You got it.
Yeah.
That's just so stupid.
Black people act like y'all come up with all these ridiculous names and you expect people to know how to pronounce them.
First of all, y'all can't even spell them correctly.
They don't make no sense.
When you look at like, you look at black people, you're like, man, I don't even know how to scarlet this.
All right.
It starts with a Q. How do you pronounce this?
Maybe it's not white people's.
Maybe it's not the white people.
Maybe it's your name.
Because I'm sure you growing up for your entire life.
You've had this issue with people.
Yeah.
Not knowing how to pronounce your name.
She's nixing that.
She said this has happened thousands of times.
So it hasn't dawned on you.
Your name is ridiculous.
Yeah.
Yeah.
More than likely your name's ridiculous.
That's how I'm going to start treating them.
How the are you working in the medical field?
You working in a hospital.
I don't give a if you clerical.
I don't give a f what you doing.
You work.
I already know what kind of woman you are.
Your parents is ghetto as hell, gave you a ghetto name.
Look how you acted over your name, which is more than likely ridiculous.
You're sitting in a car with a bonnet on.
And why are you mad?
You know your name's crazy.
Your mama know that name is crazy when she gave it to you.
That's why she gave it to you.
I'm going to give you, I'm not going to give you one of these white names like Keith and Kevin and Elizabeth and Rebecca and Laura.
I'm going to give you something crazy.
But it's going to be beautiful.
Working somewhere that's established.
You need an education for this.
So therefore, you got enough education to get through all this and pronounce fibromyalgia spell this amo, but you can't spell a seven-letter word.
Where's the class for black names?
Maybe you should be able to put that in the college class and be calling the birthday equity inclusion class.
And you teach white people how to say these ridiculous black names.
Yeah, like medical transcriptionists, whatever you call them.
Yeah, they know how to pronounce medical terms.
Yeah.
They say it all the time.
Yeah, they say it on the, but it has nothing to do with black culture, black American culture.
Yeah, but like you said, they've seen those fibromyalgia.
They've seen that a million times.
They have not ever seen your name.
Yeah.
They've never seen a black woman walk in the office with a damn body loan.
Yeah.
They've never came across your name.
So your name is so unique, they've never seen it before.
Yeah, that's what your parents wanted, right?
Yeah.
Hey, but just to think, she's not mentioning her name.
What her name is.
She's not bringing it up.
Yeah, because she's already taking the hell.
Yeah.
A name?
This black woman going to make you sound it out.
Now you feel dumb.
Now you feel some type of way because you are.
You slow as hell.
Because if you can't even pronounce a name, you shouldn't even be in here.
Wow, that's crazy.
I don't know how many names I come across that I'm not familiar with and I can't say them right.
And then they'll correct me and I'll say sorry and I'll say that name correctly because it's a unique name.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But you talking about they feel some kind of way.
They're dumb.
You have a problem with white people.
That's the problem.
Yeah.
She's racist.
Yeah, she's racist.
They dumb.
But you don't want to walk around with a crazy name.
If you had any sense, if you had an IQ higher than five, you'd have changed your name.
You wouldn't have this problem.
You didn't take it too far, Kevin.
No, you didn't have to go with the IQ.
If my mama named me something crazy, as soon as I become phase, 18, I'm changing my mom.
I'm sorry, mama.
I know you love that name, but I hate it.
Pronounce a name?
You shouldn't even be in here.
Y'all can't pronounce simple words.
Stop letting these white people do y'all like that.
Stop letting these white people have you say your name a thousand times and stuff, and they don't even try.
This is rooted in racism.
Because if it was somebody else, one of them, and it was a name that they were having a hard time pronouncing, they would try to pronounce the shit.
Respect me, respect my motherfucking name my mama gave me.
You know what's crazy?
They've probably tried to be like nice to black people like you, and they behave just like you're behaving right now.
So they don't even want to go there with you.
Yeah, your mama, I mean, have some respect for what your mom, for the name your mom gave you.
She worked hard for you.
You said, have some respect for the name my mama gave me.
I don't think your mama have much respect for you or anybody else.
That's why she gave you that name because a lot of black people, when they come with these obnoxious, weird names, it's because they want to be different.
They don't want to accept American names or American culture.
They want to be so different.
They want to be as African as they can.
If you go to Africa and you, they probably still going to have the same problem because they never came across your name before.
That's nothing to do with them being white.
It's just your name is unique.
Kevin, it's racist.
No, it ain't.
She just said it.
It's racism.
These people, man.
Let me finish this video.
Because she worked hard on their name.
It took her a minute to come up with their name.
And you go redoubted it too.
You go pronounce it right.
We go just be sitting here.
I'm not telling you.
No, I'm not telling you my name.
Sound it out.
Use your words, baby.
Use your words.
Wait a minute.
You're not going to tell them, give them direction on how to say your name?
The next thing to do is say, hey, I'm having a hard time.
I never came across your name.
Can you pronounce it for me?
No, you sound it out.
What kind of person does that?
An angry black woman does.
That's what you are.
An angry black woman.
You're the stereotypical angry black woman that's mad at the entire world.
That's rude.
And you walk around with a bonnet on your head.
Look, that's how she's talking to the lady.
Listen to this.
It took her a minute to come up with their name and you go redoubts it too.
You go pronounce it right.
We go just be sitting here.
I'm not telling you.
No, I'm not telling you my name.
Sound it out.
See, that's crazy.
That's crazy.
That's crazy.
Her heart is filled with hate.
And you know what the real issue is?
I don't think she necessarily hates white people.
She's still trying to defend her mother's honor for giving her that.
No, And she's taking it out on white people.
No, Because a lot of black people.
Let me finish.
A lot of black people don't hate people like this.