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From: mfs@mhuxr.UUCP (SIMON)
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Subject: Re: Discrimination and AA and Racism
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Date: Fri, 5-Jul-85 09:37:28 EDT
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> A few years ago, the Massachusetts Committee Against Discrimination paid
> my father (who was in charge of hiring) a visit. In the five years my
> father had had this position, he had not hired a single black. They
> wanted him to know they weren't pleased. 
> 
> He showed them his files. In the course of the five years, only one
> black had even applied for a job and was *clearly* not qualified (no
> degree is special education). 87% of his employees were women. 
> 
> My conclusion: MCAD is a good thing. The people who work for it must be
> stupid as all hell, though. I worked for a computer company last summer:
> 150 employees, all white and they've never been "visited".
> 
> Charles Forsythe

You have not given the end of the story. I assume that the MCAD, after
looking at your father's files, went away satisfied that no discrimination
had occurred (they could also look at whether or not your father had made some
effort at advertising his firm as open to black employees, something
I also assume he had done) Given that, I'd say the system worked.
Your father made good faith efforts to integrate his work force, sexually
and racially, which is all that is required of him under the law.
No government can and should hold the lack of applicants against him
*in a good faith recruiting effort* environment.

As for the employees of MCAD being stupid. Maybe you're right. Maybe there
is too few of them for an effective policing job. However, the company
you mention, which I'll again assume (lots of assuming; that'll get me
in trouble...) was all white on purpose, is reason for the existence
of such a government body, wouldn't you say?

Marcel Simon