The Ethicist answers my question

A gig hunt is a grind unto itself. I've been going at it full time and not taking time to update here as a result. Yet in the throes I find this worthy of mention. It's crazy and I still feel weird about it, but I hope you caught this Sunday's NY Times Magazine (with the Teen Romance cover). THE ETHICIST is my favorite column, and this week it features a question that I submitted and author Randy Cohen's response: "You Name It: Avoiding discrimination the Hollywood way."

For a little backstory, my question was inspired by a 2002 NYTimes article about a name discrimination study. So in a sense I've conducted my own study with the same disturbing results. I plan to write more about it when it's all over. My conflict would come when deciding whether to accept or decline a gig as Ray. The other question would be could RayRay cash that check?