#MyNameIs

 Guest Post By Melissa Pedersen

Trending today is #MyNameIs, because of this incident:

 My name is Melissa.  "Melissa" is from the Greek, and it means "honeybee", which is appropriate, because as I always tell people when I first meet them, with me sometimes you get the honey, and sometimes you get the bee.  

"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time." - Maya Angelou

That definitely includes the YouTube video above.  And the one below from 2016:

By their fruits you will know them...

Addendum, Saturday, November 7, 2020:  Hello, Your Crusading Blogger here. I want to first of all say thank you to Melissa Pedersen for her contributions to this blog while I was temporarily occupied elsewhere. What a fine job she did, and I sure do appreciate! 

As to names, my name is Claudia, which does not mean "the lame one", as is usually assumed, but is from the Latin "claudere", which means "enclosure". This is the root for many words, such as "closet", "cloister", and "clause". It implies putting something inside that you want to protect or set aside as sacred or separate. Perhaps the name was originally intended to indicate the person with that name was protected, but so often in my life I have been the protector. It's a role I'm comfortable with, so I'm cool with my name. 

Now as to Senator Perdue and his problems pronouncing Kamala Harris' name (sucky articulation, sexism, racism, xenophobia, ethnocentrism, which? Any or all of the above?), I can make it very simple for you, Senator (you won re-election, acting like this?), here you go: Kamala Harris -- (vīs prĕz′ĭ-dint-ĭ-lĕkt′) -- from the Latin "Assistant To The One Chosen By The People To Preside Over The People." See? Real simple. Happy to have cleared that up for you! And anyone else who might be having trouble!