Sixteen-pound baby born in Texas

His name is JaMichael Brown, and he is two feet tall.

Jim C., who sent the item from the Huffington Post, writes:

Subject: Triumph of the underclass

Can you imagine what the mother looks like?

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A reader writes:

Jim C.’s comment with the remark about “the triumph of the underclass” was mean. It just seems to be making fun of people for being stupid and poor.

LA replies:

I didn’t take Jim’s comment as making fun of people for being stupid and poor. I took it to mean that the underclass and their ways are progressively spreading, getting worse, and taking over America. The fact that the Today program, instead of being disgusted and repelled by his freakish size, did a segment about the 16 pound newborn and treated his size as something to celebrate, is proof of this.

This 16 pound newborn baby is a symbol of the hypertrophy of underclass America, and of its acceptance and normalization by mainstream America.

Jim C. writes:

What a magnificent visual metaphor for the strength and vigor of Obama’s America. I think we should get the hope poster designer to work and feature this strapping lad. Headline on poster: “Honkies, I’m Hungry.”

Where is Bill Cosby when you need him? This is definitely great material for Fat Albert.

Michael S. writes:

“JaMichael”? Good grief. What kind of mentality takes a perfectly good name like “Michael” and ruins it like that? What is the point?

James P. writes:

I was surprised to see that the mother is not a 400lb behemoth.

July 12

Buddy in Atlanta writes:

Michael S. writes:

“JaMichael”? Good grief. What kind of mentality takes a perfectly good name like “Michael” and ruins it like that? What is the point?

This is a fascinating subject. I’m not a trained linguist, but I’ve always been interested in languages.

Prefixing is more common in the Bantu languages of Africa than it is in Indo-European languages. And we know that it’s common for American blacks to add prefixes to existing names to create new ones: JaMichael, Demarcus, Ramarcus, Lashawna, LeVaughn, etc.

After hundreds of years of living in the West and speaking English, blacks still express themselves in ways that are more typical to Africa, at least in the case of names. It leads one to think that language has deep-seated genetic roots that differ across races. While Michael S. may think that “JaMichael” is a ruined form of “Michael,” for blacks, it may be a natural expression of their “language genes.”

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