Audience Corrects Interviewer On Mispronouncing Issa Rae's Name

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Audience corrects interviewer who mispronounced Issa Rae’s name during their discussion at CultureCon. pic.twitter.com/COL7ioyevI
- Pop Crave (@PopCrave) October 8, 2023
When an interviewer pronounces Issa's name wrong, some people in the audience were quick to point out to the interviewer on how to pronounce her name correctly.  The interviewer then

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[fernandocolunga]

People constantly misspell my name and I used to be chill about it but now I started correcting them and wow do people get upset. And then they get it right once and still continue to misspell it.

[sonadoras456]

I’ve spelled my name out for people at Starbucks and *STILL* get a misspelled name on my cup.

[fernandocolunga]

That’s the situation for me at work 😫 like my name is right there on Teams

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[howlin_wolf_66]

I would have said "Iss-a" too - but I know now in future that it's "Ee-sa"!

Not sure what she means about being 'part of the community', unless she means 'the Comic-con Community" ... but how is that relevant?

[skeetertuskin]

Maybe she’s biracial? Idk

[howlin_wolf_66]

Maybe.

[anachan87]

as a white person whose english isn't even her first or second language, i'm really confused how you can mispronounce Issa Rae...

[automaticpeople]

I imagine most would automatically say Iss-a.

[sweetwaterlane]

ya years ago when I first got into Insecure i'm pretty sure i was thinking it was like Iss-a or Eye-suh. Kinda like Isis (which i don't mean as a derogatory reference, it's a shame the name Isis has been ruined by a terrorist group, because Isis was an Egyptian goddess)

[automaticpeople]

I love the name Isis. It was my #1 baby name for a while.

[jenfolder]

My boss at a job rotation, who had met me several years earlier and could pronounce my name then, changed a vowel in my name told everyone that was what I was called and when a friend protested said that her version of my name was what I "liked" being called.

She also added an "on" onto the end of my surname and once sent an email looking for sickness cover to two of my friends and "wrongname wrongson". That I didn't mind at all but I felt sorry for the random that got her email.

I only got her to use my correct name by threatening HR/negative feedback.