| H.R. is Human Resources.
In my experience being hired, and then in the future as an interviewer meant to represent Blacks, the point really is to make sure all the interviews are conducted with the same demeanor and that the same questions are asked.
That means the interview is scripted. The person who read a question in one interview has to be the person who reads it in the next interview. If the interview team is in a good and joking mood on Tuesday they have to be in the same mood on Wednesday to make sure that the interview process is as static as possible.
It sounds like a pain, but it really works. The worst part, after quotas, was when one person really stood out as the best one for the job, but you had to take the one minority that applied. That minority wouldn't be considered unless they were qualified, but they were no match for the top dog. And it really hurt me on a personal level to have to turn down the top dog who thought they were a shoe-in because there had to be a skin-color-quota to satisfy loud-mouths like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.
Yes, I'm black... and in the words of Eddie from "Barbershop," "F*ck Jesse Jackson."
Seriously.
Their picking and choosing of which issues to represent only heightens racial awareness. That's the problem with people like them. What you want is a decrease in racial awareness. You want people to be color blind. The second you shake race in their faces... or say that certain words are used because of race (like what happened with Don Imus), you undo all the hard work that is done by real, honest, working class Blacks who want their color to be unnoticed.
If Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson were a real, working-class Black, they would know what it feels like to walk into work one day and have everyone looking at your strange or nervous to talk around you, just because some shock jock insulted a girls basketball team and A.S. or J.J. made it racial.
Sorry for the soapboxing... I hate when that happens...
But the point is that Affirmative Action isn't just about Blacks... it can be used effectively to ensure equal opportunity for all races, genders, ethnicities, etc. Instead, the loud-mouths turned it into more racism.
IT'S A BOY!!  |