There they go again

There they go again

I am writing this as winter storm Cora is dumping snow on my driveway. I didn’t even know that winter storms had names. But lo and behold, they do. It’s the brainchild of the Weather Channel. I expect that in the future there will be a winter storm Cantore. Here are this year’s names:

Anya

Blair

Cora

Demi

Enzo

Freya

Garnett

Harlow

Iliana

Jett

Kingston

Lola

Marisol

Nyla

Omari

Pascale

Quentin

Roman

Spencer

Theo

Usman

Vincenzo

Wilhelm

Xia

Ygenny

Zahir

Obviously the Weather Channel naming bureau is populated by a bunch of anti-black racists – well Omari is passable. Why racists? Well back on August 1, 2021 in the Knoxville Focus I wrote “In 2013 Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee labelled the naming of hurricanes as racist and wondered why the National Hurricane Center didn’t have black names for hurricanes. They have “white” names and Hispanic names but no black names.” Look at the names for the  2025 hurricanes and there is not a Lebron, Jaquan, Quinshon, LaTeisha  or the 40 or so variants of Jalen to be found. Here are the names from

(http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutnames.shtml).

Andrea Barry Chantal Dexter Erin Fernand Gabrielle Humberto Imelda Jerry Karen Lorenzo Melissa Nestor Olga Pablo Rebekah Sebastien Tanya Van Wendy I thought Biden had issued an edict that all federal agencies must aggressively pursue an agenda of diversity, equity and inclusion? The White House required each federal agency to submit detailed DEI progress reports regularly, appoint a chief diversity officer, and create agency equity teams whose leaders were tasked with “delivering equitable outcomes” In order to create a whole-of-government equity agenda.” Whatever all that means. Somehow that edict obviously did not make it to the National Hurricane Center except that Chantal and Tanya are marginally black names. One way to rectify this egregious wrong is simple: just put “La” in front of all the names so that the list is now:  LaAndrea LaBarry LaChantal LaDexter LaErin LaFernand LaGabrielle LaHumberto LaImelda LaJerry LaKaren LaLorenzo LaMelissa LaNestor LaOlga LaPablo LaRebekah LaSebastien LaTanya LaVan LaWendy