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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/us/01race.html?_r=2

I think it’s truly sad that in our society today, a black person feels the need to hide attributes that give away his/her race, such as his/her name and involved organizations. But there is no doubt this article sheds truth on the reality out there. I think the biggest obstacle behind this problem is that white and black people are often not socially integrated and the fallout from this is extended to the dominant group. Also, coming back to our class, the problem is the way these white employers and executives are viewing their colleagues and potential candidates of color: they are holding them to the standards of our culturally-imposed biases of our media. We much challenge the way black culture is packaged and presented as a fundamental misrepresentation of what being black means for so many and in return change the impressions that whites atop major companies (who are already many degrees separated from a real encounter with blacks) have of blacks.