African American Name Discrimination

Everyone is born with a title, a way to identify yourself, and your own logo, a name is given by your parents, something that is a part of you and a part of your family and culture. You cannot control what you were named, it was not something you could’ve chose, so why should you discriminated for that. We all know discrimination in the workplace is common, we built ways to avoid it and prevent people from ostracizing others due to ethnicity or sex. However you probably did not know your name could be a factor to not be able to find a job.
People with more African American names, even if they are not black at all, have a disadvantage in the competitive job field. According to the “National Bureau of Economic Research” (NBER), "Job applicants with white names needed to send about 10 resumes to get one callback; those with African-American names needed to send around 15 resumes to get one callback" (“National Bureau of Economic Research” 1). This means people with more “black” names have to send 50% more resumes just to get a call back. This discrimination exists in most workplaces you would try to apply to, even to places that promote their “Equal Opportunity Employer” blarney. Even with something so simple, a name
Google admitted and showed us what the percentage of the their workers race in the U.S. to help show this problem. According to the article, "Google Admits To A Woman And Color Problem, Says It Wants To Change" it explains, “Google’s U.S. leadership is 72% white. In contrast, only 1.5% of the U.S. leadership is black, and 1% Hispanic. Tellingly, 30% of Google’s U.S. employees are Asian – higher than national averages” (Tulshyan 1). Google knew these numbers were not the best, and knew they would get tons of negativity towards them because of it. However they needed to show this problem, that not just their company, but many others are just the