American Black women switches race on monster.com and job offers pour in

[genghiskhanraven]

You mean the same ones that gave Jesse Jackson 92% of all black votes over all other democrats in the 1988 primary?

[Rael]

Hmm, I think this part ...

Other than being chronically out of work, I embarked on this little experiment because of a young woman I met while I was in school. She was a twenty-two-year-old Caucasian woman who, like myself, was about to graduate. She was so excited about a job she had just gotten with a well-known sporting franchise. She had no prior work experience and had applied for a clerical position, but was offered a higher post as an executive manager making close to six figures. I was curious to know how she’d been able to land such a position. She was candid in telling me that the human resource person who’d hired her just “liked” her and told her that she deserved to be in a higher position.

... happens ALL the time.

[soulflower]

The story smells of pure BS.

Large US corporations are going out of their way to hire minorities, even giving preference over white candidates in most cases.

They have "diversity goals" which are modern words that mean "quotas" despite telling you they don't.

The problem with your "quota" assumptions is that if businesses are hiring to fill quotas, then they will stop hiring minorities once they reach their quota. So it cuts both ways.

[bmore_ken]

You mean the same ones who voted for Clinton, Gore, and Kerry,

Amazing isn't it? They're still apparently butt hurt from the election

[soulflower]

I don't think I buy this woman's story but there have been studies that concluded that people with more ethnic or black sounding names get fewer responses for resume postings than people with more white Anglo sounding names.

I'm black but I have a very Anglo American first and last name and I've never listed my race on any resume postings.

[BlandFood]

Hmm, I think this part ...

... happens ALL the time.

She was so excited about a job she had just gotten with a well-known sporting franchise. She had no prior work experience and had applied for a clerical position, but was offered a higher post as an executive manager making close to six figures. I was curious to know how she’d been able to land such a position. She was candid in telling me that the human resource person who’d hired her just “liked” her and told her that she deserved to be in a higher position.

Yeah, I believe that.

[BlandFood]

I don't think I buy this woman's story but there have been studies that concluded that people with more ethnic or black sounding names get fewer responses for resume postings than people with more white Anglo sounding names.

I'm black but I have a very Anglo American first and last name and I've never listed my race on any resume postings.

The hell you say!

[CajunRaven]

No because the idea that anyone gets swamped with interested employers from posting a resume on Monster is hard to believe.

Exactly.

[CajunRaven]

Hmm, I think this part ...

... happens ALL the time.

Of course it does.

[musicmd]

You mean the same ones that gave Jesse Jackson 92% of all black votes over all other democrats in the 1988 primary?

same ones who voted for Clinton, Gore, and Kerry.

[soulflower]

You mean the same ones that gave Jesse Jackson 92% of all black votes over all other democrats in the 1988 primary?

Got a link?

[bmore_ken]

You mean the same ones that gave Jesse Jackson 92% of all black votes over all other democrats in the 1988 primary?

Apparently not the 77% that voted for him in 84

In 1984, Mr. Jackson received 77 percent of the black vote, which translated into a total of 2.3 million ballots.

http://www.nytimes.com/1988/06/13/us...les-in-88.html

[songfourone]

Statements like that make you look more ignorant and shiftless than usual.

'shiftless and ignorant' wonder what that means wink wink nod nod.
;(

[genghiskhanraven]

Got a link?

Here's the link, in 1988 Jesse got 92% of the black vote in the democratic primary.
Maybe Jesse was the best Dem candidate and blacks weren't voting skin color.
Could be the white liberals were racist and Jesse also deserved 92% of the white vote as well

http://www.nytimes.com/1988/06/13/us...les-in-88.html

[BlandFood]

Here's the link, in 1988 Jesse got 92% of the black vote in the democratic primary.
Maybe Jesse was the best Dem candidate and blacks weren't voting skin color.
Could be the white liberals were racist and Jesse also deserved 92% of the white vote as well

http://www.nytimes.com/1988/06/13/us...les-in-88.html

Mr. Dukakis won fewer than 200,000 black votes, with most of the rest of his vote, about 3.5 million ballots, coming from white Protestants.

And whites are the racist ones. Some things never change they just can't help themselves. The allure of the safety and warmth of the plantation and the broad horizon beyond the masters house is a frightening prospect. Oh well, their loss. :shrug:

[soulflower]

Mr. Dukakis won fewer than 200,000 black votes, with most of the rest of his vote, about 3.5 million ballots, coming from white Protestants.

And whites are the racist ones. Some things never change they just can't help themselves. The allure of the safety and warmth of the plantation and the broad horizon beyond the masters house is a frightening prospect. Oh well, their loss. :shrug:

And Jackson only won 12% of the white vote. Does that make the 3/4s of whites who voted against Jackson racist?

[Sprightly]

No because the idea that anyone gets swamped with interested employers from posting a resume on Monster is hard to believe.

Exactly!!

[genghiskhanraven]

And Jackson only won 12% of the white vote. Does that make the 3/4s of whites who voted against Jackson racist?

You tell us, were the white liberal dems racist back then?
If the dem primary candidates were all pretty equally qualified such a large racial disparity among the voting groups can only be explained with either blacks voting for Jesse because of his skin color or whites voting in a lib racist block against him.

I don't know much about Jesse, im sure he was super qualified to be president and deserved 92% of the black vote, I'm going to google his history to see why liberal white voters were so against him.