> Even first and last names can give away race. While one can sometimes infer some speculation about an individual based on their name (I do it all the time) t

> Even first and last names can give away race. While one can sometimes infer some speculation about an individual based on their name (I do it all the time) this is an exercise fraught with peril. Names are, how shall we say, user-generated content in the first place. In the second place, race is a social construct defined by the person who chooses to identify that way. So if you, as an institution, begin to discriminate based on someone's name, accent, style of dress, skin color, how they smell, or the consistency of their earwax, then you're making decisions not really on race, but on what you imagine and impute that race to be, since you haven't asked the subject directly. Discrimination based on speculation is no less discrimination, of course, but it's definitely a different character than discrimination based on some known, concrete demographic fact.