[BwanaNdege]

So it may be more about class than race, after all.

Try applying for a job with a Boston law firm or NPR when your name is listed as:

"Bubba"

"Billy Joe"

"Charlene"

"Sally Mae"

[Pappy Smear]

I've noticed the Asians tend to use names out of an Iowa phone book in 1930. Charles, James, David, Michael, Sam.

Something that the article didn't touch on was apostrophes. Nothing indicates a black person more than an apostrophe in the first name.