If a job application with a name that common with black people gets rejected while an identical one with a name that's common with white people gets accepted that would be an example of bad discrimination.
Does it matter if having said name is in fact correlated with job performance?
Only if it's still correlated when you control for anything else on the CV and cover letter, incl. the fact that the candidate is not currently employed by anyone else.
Another month has passed and here is a new rationality quotes thread. The usual rules are: