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a lefthanded white guy has just as much trouble buying thing as black lefthanders. powertools,baseball mitts,mustache mugs,bows, semi autos are the worst getting them hot shells down your shirt ouch!
the white felon getting the same callback rate as a clean black is the most troublesome thing.
it proves that too many white hiring managers are fixated on race.
Shocking? No. Bad apples spoil the bunch. A little peer pressure or leadership(not the radical kind) is what black people need.
Public perception of the blacks is not good, watch the news and you see why.
The public is conditioned to be wary of blacks, understandably or not.
So don't go beating up employers, they're in business to make money. They're just going off instinct and how the media has conditioned them.
As do the rest of us.
1. The example of the black sounding name being an impediment to getting a job. I think it is more of a silly sounding name preventing people getting past the resume screener. Whether it is black sounding or something like 'Sunshine' or 'Apple', a screener just may not take it seriously. The article you cited included an example of a woman that struggled getting called for an interview until she removed her black sounding first name just using her middle and last name. (and other references she thought sounded 'black'). She was called in for an interview and subsequently hired. Obviously they knew she was black when they hired her and may have had other opportunities had she been called in for an interview. I don't doubt that she didn't get past the screeners because of her name. What I am doubting is whether it was because it is a black sounding name vs a silly white sounding name. (I assume for the sake of discussion there is such thing as a a 'black' sounding name)
2. There are a lot of people that say Affirmative Action works against college graduates. It stands to reason that if they have been given preferential treatment, people might think they are not as qualified.
There is a huge assumption in American society that somehow White folks have it better than Black, Latino and even Asian folks. Most high income places in America are predominantly White. The quite and safety of the suburbs is associated with White people. The face of affluence in America is very White. Oprah was the only Black person in Forbes 400 richest Americans list. Asians also only made 4% of the Forbes list as well. But how much truth is there really to this stereotype that Whites really have it better, as a whole? America is vastly White, yet some estimates suggest that 50% of Americans qualify as low-income earners.
This study may not be entirely accurate. Still, some recent studies have concluded that income disparity between Whites and Blacks and Latinos are at an all-time high. This study concluded that the median White household worth is a whopping twenty times more than the median worth of Black households and eighteen times that of the median worth of Latino households.
These findings may obviously be a bit exaggerated and skewed. Many cynical people will chalk up these vast income differences between Blacks and Whites to a lack of education and or work ethic. But even Blacks who do pursue higher education have much higher unemployment rates and more student loan debt than White college graduates. Black college grads have double the unemployment rate of White college grads.
Employment, in general, is poorer for Blacks than Whites. Blacks have the highest unemployment of any racial group. Some studies suggest that a White man who is a convicted felon is more likely to get a job than a Black man with a clean record. Other studies conclude people with Black sounding names (i.e. Tenisha, Tamika, Diquan) do not get calls for interviews after sending their resumes to employers.
However, an overlooked fact is that outside of large cities and metro areas is made up of massive swaths of nothing but middle to low-income White people living in the middle of nowhere. Chris Rock would agree. The entire state of West Virginia is an example of the great White rural poverty that exists in America.
BUT, Blacks and Latinos do have higher poverty rates than Whites. Approximately one out of four Black people officially live below the poverty line compared to one out of ten Whites. Most Black households are led by single mothers. Also, the homicide rate for Black men is exponentially higher than that of White men. Black men are nearly seven times more likely to be murdered than White men. Black men are also much more likely to go to prison than Whites. Black men are six times more likely to go to prison in their lifetime than White men. Black men also make up over 50% of all drug arrests in the United States.
A dirty little secret is that many Asians are actually statistically not that much different from similarly situated Blacks in many cases, economically-speaking. In fact, Asians living some urban areas have similar to worse poverty rates as Blacks.
Cities where Asians are actually statistically significant (i.e. San Francisco, Long Beach, Fresno, Oakland) have bad problems with Asian gangs and violent crime in the Asian American community.
Despite the fact that Blacks, Hispanics and certain subsets of Asians and Pacific Islanders may have higher poverty and violent crime/victimization and incarceration rates than Whites, there are more Whites on welfare than any other group, in terms of raw numbers. At the end of the day, Whites, like any race, are not a monolithic group. A dirt poor White person living in a trailer park in Mississippi has nothing in common with a wealthy White person descending from old money living in Georgetown in DC aside from their common ethnicity/race. Can anybody here argue that Whites do have it better? Or anybody want to argue the opposite?
Noted.
Whites and Asians respect education more than blacks.
I will not give up my job to a black person because I feel pity for them, how about you?
Answer me something. How is a civil service test "racist" toward blacks and latinos and a advantage given to white? FDNY and Chicago have come under fire and now Chicago has to hire over 100 black firefighters (no matter how well whites do) because the civil service test was biased. The same with the FDNY. Was there questions about the show "seinfeld" on the test to make it biased toward blacks and latinos? Nope
Thinking questions were deemed to be "biased". So do I think it is just as hard and sometimes harder to be a white guy? Yes I do.
Answer me something. How is a civil service test "racist" toward blacks and latinos and a advantage given to white? FDNY and Chicago have come under fire and now Chicago has to hire over 100 black firefighters (no matter how well whites do) because the civil service test was biased. The same with the FDNY. Was there questions about the show "seinfeld" on the test to make it biased toward blacks and latinos? Nope
Thinking questions were deemed to be "biased". So do I think it is just as hard and sometimes harder to be a white guy? Yes I do.
They're stupid. Because of the amount of melanin that their skin has they're mentally handicapped.
On test you need a brown skinned handicap you need to factor in.
I'm sure brown skinned people are kosher with all that...
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