Good posts Legend, I found your posts interesting.
Legend writes:
Making employers afraid to reject, fire or discipline minority candidates is *a totally different thing*!.
OMG, boy you really hit the nail on the head with that line. Yes, sometimes race trumps competency.
I work for/through the Dept of Social Services. To show that race is completely "unimportant", to show that we are equal opportunity employers, we are legally obligated to go out of our way to the millionth degree to show how extremely important race is. Total oxymoron.
I can understand why AA was started, and perhaps its intention was originally good, but perhaps now the scales of justice should start slowly reversing its swing. If I parallel AA to hate crime legislation, would you think it a good comparison? Eg. to bring public consciousness to crimes against gays and minorities, "special" laws are temporarily enacted to deliver harsher sentences. When public consciousness is complete, then hate laws can/should be removed from the books, leaving just "equal" laws. Alas, perhaps it is a journey that never ends? But at least the pendulum of the scales should swing less and less.
BTW, don't mind Rhain too much. Courtesy and integrity aren't high on some peoples values.
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