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Meet Jamall Allen

Posted on 5/6/15 at 6:44 pm
Posted by Jim Rockford
Member since May 2011
98188 posts
Posted on 5/6/15 at 6:44 pm
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People make a lot of assumptions based on a name alone.

Jamaal Allan, a high school teacher in Des Moines, Iowa, should know. To the surprise of many who have only seen his name, Allan is white. And that's taken him on a lifelong odyssey of racial encounters.
Posted by Vito Andolini
Member since Sep 2009
1879 posts
Posted on 5/6/15 at 6:49 pm to
Probably had a number of scholarship offers to Ivy League schools.
Posted by bbvdd
Memphis, TN
Member since Jun 2009
25000 posts
Posted on 5/6/15 at 6:51 pm to
Was he adopted by black parents?
Posted by 70739tigah
Baton Rouge
Member since Nov 2007
1367 posts
Posted on 5/6/15 at 6:51 pm to
Im black and my name is Prescott Dartmouth, III.
Posted by UpToPar
Baton Rouge
Member since Sep 2008
22157 posts
Posted on 5/6/15 at 6:52 pm to
Chances he has caused at least one of his employers to miss their diversity quota?
Posted by lsuwontonwrap
Member since Aug 2012
34147 posts
Posted on 5/6/15 at 6:55 pm to
My neighbor growing up was named Jamal and he was white.
Posted by REB BEER
Laffy Yet
Member since Dec 2010
16204 posts
Posted on 5/6/15 at 7:00 pm to
I knew a white guy in BR named Jamal. He played football for Southern for a short stint. He said all his teachers were surprised when they saw him.
Posted by Fat and Happy
Baton Rouge
Member since Jan 2013
17013 posts
Posted on 5/6/15 at 7:02 pm to
I just bet his life has been such a struggle being white with an urbanite name.

He could easily relate to the discrimation of races in this country.

What a brave young man he has been.
Posted by Cosmo
glassman's guest house
Member since Oct 2003
120286 posts
Posted on 5/6/15 at 7:04 pm to
Looks like a douche.

A huge douche.
Posted by BowlJackson
Birmingham, AL
Member since Sep 2013
52881 posts
Posted on 5/6/15 at 7:09 pm to
I had a HS English teacher named Jerome Chapman. Whitest guy you ever met. He was cousins with Mark David Chapman, the guy who killed John Lennon, and he looked a lot like him for a point of reference.
This post was edited on 5/6/15 at 7:10 pm
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