If I’m so white, why ain’t I rich?
It helps to have a white-sounding first name when looking for work, a new study has found.

Resumes with white-sounding first names elicited 50 percent more responses than ones with black-sounding names, according to a study by professors at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The professors analyzed birth certificates in coming up with what names to use. The white names included Neil, Brett, Greg, Emily, Anne and Jill. Some of the black names used were Tamika, Ebony, Aisha, Rasheed, Kareem and Tyrone.

So what’s my problem? Too white? Maybe the von Huben sounds a little too Aryan, a little too Hitler youth. Or is it the ‘y’ in the praenomen?
Too weird?

That’s OK. Emily will support me when she strikes it rich!