Freakonomics: Is distinctive black culture a cause of the economic disparity between blacks and whites or merely a reflection of it? It's time to ask are poor people poor because it's their fault? Yeah. Are you poor because of socioeconomic structures? Or are you not watching Seinfeld? Is that the problem? The black names thing, like this is... Tale as old as time, right? People being like, well, if you have a black name, you're less likely to get job offers.