‘Ketanji” is pronounced ke-tan-ji

Make no mistake, when a power-play, or an intentional act of exerting perceived dominance is at work, fucking around with someone’s name is the cheapest tool in the box for demonstrating disrespect.

 

And then there is blatant racism – where the purveyors and benefactors of white supremacy feel like it is unnecessary, or below them to make the effort to learn how to pronounce a name that feels foreign on the tongue. Racism loves to give people whose names aren’t familiar nicknames that sound white or abbreviate their presence into easy-to-remember initials. Racism devalues the culture of others by mispronouncing names both on accident, but without apology, and on purpose.

 

But let me be perfectly clear: