Sadly this isn't anything new. I knew as a kid that if your name "sounded black" you had a 70% chance of getting your resume tossed out. This is everywhere. EV

Sadly this isn't anything new. I knew as a kid that if your name "sounded black" you had a 70% chance of getting your resume tossed out. This is everywhere. EVERYWHERE. All groups do this to some extent. We've all heard of Italian neighborhoods that will only sell houses to other Italians, white neighborhoods that don't sell homes to blacks, asians, or latinos. Jewish apartment complexes & towns (especially in Bulgaria) that only allow other Jews in. Asian neighborhoods that rent out only to other asians. Some Christians, Muslims, & Jews can have similar policies for job openings and property sales. Some racism is in response to previous racism which only furthers racism. I know St. Louis' Mass Trasit Agency's Bus Garage Department is racist against whites and only hires blacks. A woman named Kim Kashone will throw out your resume and send you in circles if she finds out you aren't black. Employees who've worked there for over 10 years can tell you this. Despite whites applying, all the garage workers are black. Whites even engage is discrimination against each other. If your last name is something very foreign sounding like Budrovich, Dimitrova, Biankanetzka people automatically discount you thinking, "when was the last time I heard of someone famous with a name like that? I'm not investing in this person because others didn't". Which is why most Americans have shortened and Americanized their last names so as to assimilate and be un-noticable. Which is sad in a Country like America which has immigrants from all over the world. As awful as this is, this is a very normal and natural response for a group of people. A culture or race wants to see its own kind succeed and it's own culture flourish. You can't take the human out of the human.