[texas_mrs]

My company does work for the Texas Department of Transportation. Each year we must file a report that shows the number of minorities of each category we have on a particular project for July. When I told them I expected to report Hispanics under the regular category and Whites under the minority column since that is what our census now shows, they advised me that while Whites are the minority in Texas, they are not nationally, so keep the status quo.........

[GeorgefromGeorgia]

I am an attorney defending the USG against EEO claims. Only 5% of claims against DoD result in finding of discrimination. The system is incredibly bureaucratic and expensive. The vast majority of complaints are frivolous. The whole EEO system is designed to root out discrimination that in reality rarely exists.
I was at an EEO conference last year and in one group an EEO investigator (over 20 years experience) said that she had not seen a true case of discrimination in her entire career.
The statistical records game is to protect firms and the Government from claims based on disparate impact. Such claims try to show a pattern of discrimination based on a statistically high variation in for example promotions from the standard deviation.
The whole system does have some benefits, but the cost of the system in my opinion outweighs the benefits.