[biblewonk]

Colleges Struggle to Help Black Men Stay Enrolled

I'm picturing the scene in the movie Trading Places when the 2 brothers have Valentine in their car and are trying to get him to stay with them. They offer cigars, money and all the booze he wants.

[hotdogjones]

Lots of racism still exists.
I know one of my African American buddies who has a PHD is physics tells of all the stories about the systematic discrimination in the sciences field. He is a big guy, goes into interviews and people don't believe he has a PHD in Physics. They say "How can this be". The outsourcing that is going on in IT happened in the sciences field in the 1980's. When African American males see what happens to their old counter parts with high employment they say why bother. Lots of them decide to go into other fields.

Same thing happens when you show up for an interview for a high skilled software development job. Very surprising to see the expression of folks faces when they see that you are African American. Fun to have been on interviews where they try to find something you don't know. They pick and pick and continue to dig. I can remember one time back in the mid 90's getting one of those SRA/IQ tests. The HR manager would sit down and grade the test and was shocked that I got most of the answers correct.

It is a lot of fun to disprove alot of the stereo types out there. I also get laughs when they say "You are a Black Republican", lol. I told that I converted after listening and reading Rush's stuff.