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You are a useful idiot. What if they did the same test but used tradionally southern white "redneck" names like Cleetus and Cooter. Do you think Cleetus and Cooter would get as many call backs? Not many white doctor's kids are named Cleetus, even in the South just as not many black doctor's kids are named Bonifa or Sha'Quanda. Like it or not there is a stereoptype with names, but it isn't about race.
I've never met anyone named "Cleetus" or "Cooter'. I don't think those are even real names.
The point was, if the only difference was that some names sounded white, and some names sounded black, and the white names got the callbacks, then racism is still a thing.
I'll give you another example.
In 2012, in the Purchasing Department I worked in, we had three people leave out department over a summer.
A Chinese woman who had been with the company for nine years and established much of our supply chain in Asia.
A black woman who had been with the company two years and handled inter-company transfers.
A white intern who had been with the company three months.
As a department, we held going away lunches for all three of these ladies... now, guess which one of them the General Manager took time out of his busy schedule to attend with us?
Yup. The white intern got the GM to hang with us... the others, not so much.
NOW- I never heard this man say anything racist. He really expressed all the proper, politically correct views...
But at the end of the day, the white girl got more attention than the women of color who had contributed a lot more.
There are a myriad of reasons why this could have been the case. Assuming it was because of race is a convenient assumption for those with that mindset.