Originally posted by Nightshade
I think if we stopped worrying about peoples race or sexual preferences and merely hired according to qualifications then we wouldn't have to worry about this kind of BS..........but then thats just my "CNN inspired liberal view"
The problem is the majority of employers don't hire based on qualifications alone. Did you hear about the study they did where they sent out 5000 resumes, all w/same qualifications, the difference was the names, some were "white sounding" others black,mexican,asian, and other minoritiy sounding names. There was an overwheliming disparity(sp?) in the number of responses given to the ones w/white sounding names, they got over 50%. It's because of this there is affirmative action. The playing field has got to be leveled out.