Last week, television personality Raven-Symone’s declaration that she would refuse to hire job applicants with “ghetto names” set the Internet on fire, and reopened an age-old topic: There are many in the dominant society who wouldn’t want to go near anyone with “Black-sounding” names. Are you afraid of someone named Malik? What about Jamal? Maybe it’s the names Dominique or Tyrone that strike fear into you the most. Either way, it’s likely that there’s a reason for that.
A recent UCLA study shows that people perceived Melanoid men with stereotypicaally Black names to be more larger in stature and more violent. The series of studies involved 1500-plus people.
“I’ve never been so disgusted by my own data,” said lead author Colin Holbrook, a research scientist in the anthropology department in the UCLA College. “The amount that our study participants assumed based only on a name was remarkable. A character with a black-sounding name was assumed to be physically larger, more prone to aggression, and lower in status than a character with a white-sounding name.”
Most of the participants in the study were whites, ranging from ages 18 up to the mid 70s–an interesting statistic that dispels the notion that today’s generation is “post racial”.
Although the average height in the U.S. for both Black and white males are the same, the participants envisioned that the Blacks would be simultaneously larger in stature and lower in status, while they envisioned the males with white-sounding names as being smaller in stature and higher up on the social ladder.
The study also peels back another layer behind the mindset of white supremacists–and suspected white supremacists alike. In case you were wondering why your resume keeps being looked over if you have a “Black-sounding” name? Maybe you just scare the hell out of your potential employer.
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Jaquisha shoquana laqiasia tyrone wacleida keisha quanayyta shalamaya jaquan taquan jamal lamar tyeisja jesyikncesha tamnarzia ghetto ass names wouldnt hire neither sorry
that shows your ignorance…smh…they didn’t choose their names, their parents chose to name them that, so why should they be denied a job interview because of their name?
Who cares who you would and wouldn’t hire anyway? Lol People with your mindset is why I’m constantly screaming FUCK A JOB. The only way out of the grasps of white supremacists and Coons is to own our own business and economies, that way whether you hire us or not is irrelevant as we could just deny your children employment too lol
Right on, keep spitting that knowledge
Thats the only way the Black Race going to trample and dismantle this racist and degrading white supremist. Own more businesses and more companies. Cashflow
All the above names raised in the hood projects lets be honest
get lost troll…so called “ghetto” people come in all colors and all types of names in this time and age…
White people just mad cause they cant and never will be black like yall doing the most
Not necessary,nik. Do you know names like tyrone and dominique are european names? Tyrone Power was a well know anglo-saxon ,”white”,euro-american male actor back in the 1940’s and50’s. Dominique is french . As far as project sounding,do you really think you are any better than those supposed project people? You probably are not. But you more than likely ,love being a beneficiary of “white” supremacy and the perks of being an interloper on sites for black people,you piece of filth.
I used to work as a program coordinator and I seen this so many times. If HR could not pronounce your name your application would go in the trash, regardless of your education or experience.
Am I jumping the gun when I say people can often suffer because of the choices their parents made?
Yes you are. A name has never kept back white people or stopped them from achieving so why should a name keep back black people? What is so violent about the name Jamal? Lol Anything foreign has always been a threat to white people due to their own complexes and there is nothing us Melanated people can do about that nor should we want to do anything about another mans complexes. Whether I call my child Jerome or James my child will still suffer at the hands of white supremacy so teach your child ownership. Fuck a job.
@TheTruth101
Very opinionated you are… Yet you offer no thorough response. Just a bunch of redundant rhetoric. You speak of black ownership as if it’s easily attainable and maintainable. “F**k a job” is completely absurd. The lack of a employment is a contributing factor to our downfall. The majority of people in the dominate society have a job. What’s so degrading about having a job? You speak as if we’re in the position to avoid a job and still live a prosperous life. Keep rambling about white supremacy because clearly you don’t have nothing feasible and or a plan that can be executed.
What isn’t thorough about my response? I’m 21 years old and I’ve started my first company because I was sick and tired of going to interviews suited and booted with Degree in hand and still get turned down for the job, Black people know that we get discriminated in the workplace and even before we have even got the job so why would I encourage my people to stay on that path? Fuck that. My advice is work for a year or two max then invest in your own ideas, you will never not face discrimination as a black man in America and our situation can’t be compared to our white counterparts working as they don’t even know the smell of white supremacy and a large portion don’t even know that it exists. Your arguing against my point that working for yourself isn’t the answer as if working for the dominant society is?…
@TheTruth101
I kind of figured you were young; I’m nearly 28 by the way. I sense your passion, however, I can tell by the tone (attitude) in your message(s) you still have some growing up to do. It’s imperative you learn how to deal and maneuver in the system of White Supremacy. There’s nothing wrong with consciously playing a role within the dominate society to make a living. Just don’t turn your back. I understand this is a safe-haven for us to vent our frustrations and concerns. Just be mindful and offer constructive views instead of constant bickering.
there is no maneuvering in this system as we are simply rats in a trap. If you leave a rat in a trap for a week eventually it will start to believe that its his choice to make the maneuvers it is making without even realising the hidden hand at play. They give us our options and we decide right or left but thats not freedom. What im pushing for is freedom, What your pushing for is a coping mechanism in a system of injustice. My age has nothing to do with the words i speak as i know 40 year olds that only regurgitate coonish rhetoric. You still havnt provided a plan to get us out of this hell all your saying is to work and “maneuver” in a system of white supremacy lool look up the meaning of the word supreme and you’ll see why that is impossible.
Truth101 is a cave whore dummy!
Truth101
I think you should read Cry, the Beloved Country.
It colors my perception of you.
That, Hotel Rwanda, and “I would be skeptical about hirering someone name billy joey bobby sarah molly katie suzy… they have more hate n anger than any people i know. So how can they sum anyone up kmsl” ‘s post from this page.
Your name will affect how you are perceived. That goes for everyone.
I think you should come with a strong point instead of making vague comments from the sideline.
I would be sceptical to hirer those with names like billy bobby sarah suezy becky franky joey hell those name sound like people that will shoot up a whole office complex movie theater church school.
Stay ineirmatovf, San Diego, yeah boy!
Is anyone really surprised by this though? You never hear about this issue with every other nationality in the US when they have foreign names buy for some reason Tyrone (which is actually an Irish name) is just impossible to pronounce. But you know what? This is good. A lot of youth are going to start waking up because of this study and realize that long term they’d better start thinking about how to employ themselves rather than try and fail to fit in with white society.
Our people do need to work though (despite my earlier post). While we’re in captivity we have no choice until things change. So my suggestion…change your name on that resume. Change it to something close to your birth name but make it more….”comfortable” (I’m cringing as I type this) to your potential employer.. If they ask you about it say you’re thinking of getting it legally changed or you prefer to be called by that name so that’s why you put it on the resume. Bruce Jenner can change his name to Caitlin. No reason you can’t do the same thing. You’re trying to get a job and you have bills to pay so do what you gotta do.
“A New Study Reveals That Whites Are Terrified Of Black People With ‘Ethnic’ Names”
Those that fear you will kill you.
-Anonymous
A traditional name that doesnt threaten whites will get you in the door, but the moment they start to feel threatened, they’ll work on your exit, believe that. So looking at the larger picture, white supremecists disqualifying you because of your name is saving alot of time and energy on both ends. If your’re threatened by black people, then dont bother hiring us in the first place; it never ends well. But because of EOE, most companies need at least one melanated individual on site. However, “black sounding” and ghetto are two different things. You have Afrikan names, and then you have those names that you can tell someone made up off the top of their dome, i.e. Marcquanz, Jah’taynique, etc, and I do wonder what their parents were thinking. But there are alot of white trash made up names, names like Trip, Dirk etc, but we know they wont have any problems, they are given the benefit of the doubt or viewed as “whimsical”. No surprise there. So miss me with that bullshit about not hiring someone because of a name, you dont understand how white supremecy works. When you figure that out, you’ll have a different opinion.
Perfectly put brother
Britney is another white trash name, and all the ones Ive known WERE white trash. Yet, they’ll have no problems….and they are more powerful than any black person in the dominant society.
This is extreme, silly, and hopefully nowhere as widespread as implied. However, my take on this topic is that…. If my ancestors were kidnapped and forced into slavery by another “people” then, I sure as heck would not be naming my children after them, even if I had to make up names. No way I am honoring the oppressors by naming my children after them. What I would do, if I did not know what my surname had been would be to get a Dan test to get racial/geographical history … then select from a list of names from the area with the “most genetically similar” bloodline and even change my name … And name my children accordingly. Neither should any of us criticize those who use just common names it European origin….it does not mean they are ….. Whatever
That is DNA test… And I am an old white dude from the south
I understand yourtake I guess but why should the names that our mothers gave us for a reason be segregrated just shows you how fucked up the world is smh
I can see that, because when they name their kids names like : A -man- duh, Man-dy I wonder if it’s really a man. let’s not forget Peggy sue, Mary Beth and so on. these people are pathetic.
All I have to say is I wonder if European names are k to have. Those names probably dont have a hard time getting a job in America. That is just code for dont hire black person smh. When we start to economically build we wont have to worry about those problems has much.we will be able to start to employ our own at a high level. But we as a ppl need to do better when it comes to naming our kids anyway n remember to give them strong names.
But we wont economically build b/c only asians and arabs are allowed to get biz loans in our community. Black people have to buy homes, raise children, pay for college and “pull ourselves up by our bootstraps” if we want to start a business.
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So the survey participants were representative of the UCLA region, and not all white, and yet you all are race-baiting that this is a problem specifically with white people?
Meanwhile, other studies show whites and black people have similar fear responses to black faces:
https://scienceblog.com/7830/blacks-whites-have-same-fear-reaction-when-seeing-a-black-face/