Job interviews aren't for the purpose of predicting future achievement? Say again?

there's a lot of ugly historical baggage where science has met race in the past.

There is indeed:

http://johnhawks.net/weblog/topics/meta/gould-morton-lewis-2...

If that isn't ugly, what is?

Here is a link to the actual paper instead of someone's highly editorialized blog post.

http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal....

You're really doing Professor Hawks a disservice by imagining him as some kind of foul right-wing agitator. He's actually bending over backward to be fair.

Here's how a slightly more partisan biologist (Peter Frost) responds to the same material:

http://evoandproud.blogspot.com/2011/07/arroseur-arrose.html

Here's the NY Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/14/science/14skull.html

Other than stating that the blog post was highly editorialised, there was absolutely no indication given by whyenot about what Hawks biases might be.

To be honest, your comment reads strongly as though you are projecting.