[MineralMan]

Try this Google image search for "Bill Washington." Do some research before you make such silly statements.

http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2004-32,GGLD:en&q=bill%20washington&sa=N&tab=wi

[r9etb]

OTOH, if you see a surname like Nkomo, you'd be pretty well certain of not finding any but black people associated with it....

[dangus]

"Washington" is a southern name, mostly. Very few white southerners ever moved North, so in places like the Northeast, anyone with a southern name is likely to be black. But since this took place in the south...