Reply #192: for pete's sake [View All]

[paulsby]

he changed his name when he was a little kid. most probably there was at least some impetus to "fit in".

so frigging what? he did it as a kid, and after being called a name for a certain # of years why should he give it up to please the "he's trying to hide his ethnicity" crowd.

THAT would be pandering to ethnic crap, frankly. to change his name back (the name he goes by) to his given name to appease people or to try to prove he's down with his ehtnic roots.

furthermore, with a last name like jindal and the fact that he clearly does not look like some pasty white guy, nobody is going to think he's not indian background, just because he goes by "bobby".

personally, i don't go by my first name. my first name is actually very common, and my second middle name not so much. but i like my second middle name more, so i chose to go by it. sowhat? my first name is biblical. am i "hiding" my biblically influenced parents (neither of whom are particularly religious. but it is technically a biblical name).

this whole thing is bunch of crap. the guy has gone by bobby since he was a little kid and nobody needs to read a bunch of nefarious self-hating racial crap into it. it just makes the person look absurd.