Is this true?
In this era of affirmative action, I could imagine that a resume from Malcolm Jamal or Latisha might get more call backs than a resume from Jason, Justin, or Jared.
Well, this is from Salon, which is well known to be a liberal mouthpiece.
The “black-sounding” names communicate being raised by a mother on welfare. Being raised without a father we used to call being a bastard, until bastard became too harsh a characterization, and we shifted first to illegitimate and then to love-child and then to normal.