In the TV biography of Michael Savage on NewsNation, one of his sons said: “When my father got his degrees no one in the country in academia would hire any white men. No one. So he had to abandon that.”
The quotas for minorities and females were so far from being filled that they would hire practically anyone but a white man. Not even giving them an interview.
Michael Savage (Michael Weiner) has a PhD in Nutritional Ethnomedicine from the University of California, Berkeley, and Master’s degrees in Medical Botany and Medical Anthropology from the University of Hawaii, and a Bachelor’s degree in Biology from Queens College.
Interesting you bring Michael Savage into this as he is a Jew.
Jews had this very problem for centuries in the Old World and as a result had to develop a very entrepreneurial culture.
Then they started offering services nobody else could.
There are two sides to the discrimination coin.
I totally believe this.
When I graduated college the first time in 1985 with a degree in Computer Programming & Systems Analysis, it was hard as hell to land a decent job.
Almost every large corporation I applied to and passed their programming test wasn't hiring anyone who wasn't black as most of them had some form of government contract which required them to meet minority hiring quotas.
The one that really p*ssed me off was Sears Roebuck, who I worked for, for four years while putting myself through college. Took their programming test over two days and scored a 96. Followed by three days of interviewing only to be told they couldn't hire me "at that time."
My manager at the Sears Parts & Distribution Center in Melrose Park, IL sponsored me for the test. When I wasn't hired for one of the 20 positions they had open, he responded I was the wrong color. I quit that day, right there on the spot.
Ended up working for Blue Cross/Shield a few weeks later and was there for two years until moving onto another (better paid) role towards in 87/88 as the economy was booming like crazy under President Reagan.
No one should EVER have to go through that B.S.