ABC News 20/20 Report: White and Black Names

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Originally Posted by shinerbock

It would obviously depend on the person. Despite my distaste for minority popular culture, I generally love to see people from unfortunate backgrounds do well for themselves. I think they're often the most motivated and they've worked the hardest to get there. If Latravious or whoever we decided the applicant was...was well spoken, clean cut, and fit the requirements better than other applicants, I imagine I'd hire him.

Note- I'm not saying all people with "blacker" last names are from rough backgrounds, but I imagine we can agree that some of them are.

Other Note- Part of the reason I feel this way is from family experience...My dad hires a lot of people on a regular basis, and he's run into problems before where there is a really well qualified minority applicant, good scores, etc...but they don't speak well or present themselves as professionally as the company expects. Thats where I think presentation does matter.

So all other things being equal you would assume that a Brad or Larry would present better than the well qualified minority?