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First, I’m assuming that you know this is definitely the same Connie you grew up with. Assuming that’s the case, say something.
You can’t let someone you know to be white and privileged lie about her background when she’s applying for a job to be a voice for marginalized populations (and presumably taking that job from a candidate who isn’t lying about their background). You can’t ethically say nothing, and it’s likely to harm you professionally if it later comes out that you knew and didn’t speak up.
I’d approach the person on the hiring panel whose judgment you most respect and who’s reasonably senior/influential, and share what you know. Your framing should be, “I’m concerned this will hurt the department when it comes out.” (Not if — when.) That’s not attacking Connie based on race; it’s sharing info about significant misrepresentations she’s made, and the potential for real harm if those lies go unchallenged.
From there, it’s up to them but you’ll have sounded an alarm that you’re uniquely positioned to sound right now.
Here’s the problem. That higher up should be notified in writing. I’m just saying, it can, and would, be denied at a later time when the problem comes to light.
Not that higher ups would intentionally throw someone under the bus to save their own a*s..
I would tend to agree.
Imagine when this comes out publicly
Does the department get shamed for hiring a white girl in a black position?
Does she intend to use it to embarrass them?
Is anything else on her resume false?
Any other possible explanation EXCEPT the truth creates potential problems.
The simplest solution is to tell them to write a letter thanking her for her application, but they’ve selected another candidate- Then call the cousin and tell her that they were onto the scam and she would be smart not to repeat the mistake.
That’s a good answer. Obviously the concern here is that the woman is a LIAR, it’s not the content of the lies she is telling. Although she is completely mis-representing herself and her entire family, so that’s quite a tall tale! Acting as though she doesn’t know her own cousin seems to indicate a level of real mental illness, they don’t want to hire this person and I agree the questioner has to say what he knows.
If she identifies as black, she’s obviously black.
Right?
“Your framing should be, “I’m concerned this will hurt the department when it comes out.” (Not if — when.)”
The decision of whether it will hurt the department or not is dependent with how the department management is going to handle the basic dishonesty of the applicant.
But in many jobs in the US today, honesty is not a real interest by the employer. There are jobs out there that just require attendance and do not have need of morals or integrity at all. And the employers are aware of them and are just looking for a replacement for the last one that didn’t show up today. And if you think that is a junk job, look at minimum wage jobs and you’ll find a lot of them.
I worked security for intel right after I retired from the military and heard, from a high intel exec, the statement, “I just can’t believe the lack of loyalty of the minimum wage employee.” Hint there. They don’t care whether they have good employees working for them or not with these types of expectations. And pretty soon, all you get is liars to apply. And they are interchangeable with honest people in their ideal as long as they don’t steal something that has any real worth. And good perspective employees in time don’t apply when the attitude of the management is known. Slippery slope.
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Perhaps he/she/it is simply identifying as “black”. That is okay, even on a job application, right?
Right?
If a biological male identifies as a female, or vice-versa, is ANYONE allowed to contest that in today’s world? Anyone at all?
Why would it be any different for biological race?
This is where the stunted, corrupt, and intellectual processes of the Left lead us.
Madness. Madness.