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I believe that those who make the hiring decisions at my workplace must be free of any name prejudice, in that a great number of the newer employees are young African-Americans, the majority of whom have recognizably African-American names.

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There have been a few people here who have argued with me that there even is such a thing as a recognizably African-American name, and who have either implied or stated that I'm employing stereotypes and displaying prejudice for even thinking that there is. The last time this happened, I came close to posting all of the recognizably African-American first names of some of my co-workers, along with the fact that when I first saw these names in the work chat, before knowing to whom of the many new employees they belonged, I knew that their bearers were black. Because it just gets to the point that I feel it's insulting my intelligence. I decided not to post it in the interest of not being seen as being too argumentative.

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So regardless of the merits of the rest of the article, I'm glad that the author points out "the growing ease with which one can guess whether a person in the US is black or white". Thank you.

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