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Eh, I'm not sure I agree so much with your argument here. I mean, there's tons of stuff in this world which started unpleasantly and have become divorced from their unpleasant beginnings. I mean, someone was telling me the other day that loads of modern medical practices (chemo was one they listed, but I'm too lazy to check up on that) have their roots in or have been improved by Nazi medical experiments during WWII. Now, I don't buy that and I'm too lazy to do my research, but if we're using your argument I can rightfully stand here and say that because of its origin (which we're taking as true for the sake of the argument), chemo is nazi-ish. Which is stupid.

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Unrelated and long winded, but basically, I call fallacy on your logic here.

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That said, the original La-a story I heard did specify the race of the parent s as African-American. Because of the prevalence of the urban legend, I find LesleyDracken's story pretty hard to swallow - mainly because it's almost word for word the story I was told by someone else. Coincidence? Hmm... I just think it's another case of someone posting or talking about a kid called LaTrine or Unicycle. Stupid nmes do exist, but so do stupid urban myths.