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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
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Posted: Mon Jul  1 08:20:46 1985
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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