This is specifically for Brad, but also to any conservative who still doesn't believe in affirmative action. Someday, my friends, you too shall see the light (if you don't already by this and many other articles).

http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/archives/001253.html#001253

And for the lazy:

No single employer was sent two identical résumés, and the names on the résumés were randomly assigned, so applicants with black- and white-sounding names applied for the same set of jobs with the same set of résumés. Apart from their names, applicants had the same experience, education and skills, so employers had no reason to distinguish among them.

The results are disturbing. Applicants with white-sounding names were 50 percent more likely to be called for interviews than were those with black-sounding names. Interviews were requested for 10.1 percent of applicants with white-sounding names and only 6.7 percent of those with black-sounding names...