One of the problems with NPR is that there is so much political correctness that if you've got a name that looks like it was made up by Rudyard Kipling, you've got a better chance of getting hired. I'm a white guy named Tony Snow, for heaven's sake. That's as white as it goes.
Quoted in Al Kamen, "You Can Quote Them on That, Maybe," washingtonpost.com (2006-07-06).