Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site mit-vax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!mit-vax!csdf From: csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe) Newsgroups: net.women,net.politics Subject: Re: Discrimination and AA and Racism Message-ID: <295@mit-vax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 1-Jul-85 08:20:46 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-vax.295 Posted: Mon Jul 1 08:20:46 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 5-Jul-85 04:05:47 EDT References: <489@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP> <292@looking.UUCP> <354@mhuxr.UUCP> <200@fear.UUCP> <363@mhuxr.UUCP> Reply-To: csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe) Distribution: net.politics, net.women Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 30 Xref: watmath net.women:6234 net.politics:9739 Summary: In article <363@mhuxr.UUCP> mfs@mhuxr.UUCP (SIMON) writes: >arm twisting. MOST often, the arm twisting occurs because the employer >refuses to stop conscious and unconscious discriminatory practices. Oh is just sooooooooooooooooo easy, isn't it. A story: 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. Pause to think about this situation a moment. 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". Comments? -- Charles Forsythe CSDF@MIT-VAX "The Church of Fred has yet to come under attack. No one knows about it." -Rev. Wang Zeep