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all the government interference in the labor market increases the risks in hiring minorities. You almost hope you don’t get a resume from a minority, and if you do it goes straight to the shredder (”which resume? What are you talking about?”)

Sounds like you are not familiar with OFCCP. It is a Dept. of Labor standard that requires you to retain ALL job applications, keep detailed records by RACE, and be prepared to document which candidates where interviewed/considered by RACE and ultimately hired by RACE. This info is subject to reporting to the Federal Govt. and they can come and inspect your files at any time.

For example, if you hired an engineer, you would have to document that you received 155 applications, 44 of which were blacks, 59 femaile, 21 Hispanic, 12 Asian, etc. You would have to indicate that you selected 20 for interview: 9 white, 6 black, 2 Hispanic, 3 Asian, 5 Female. You would then justify why you chose to hire the one you did (particularly if a white male)

First they forced this onto Federal contractors, then onto anybody who got TARP or bailout money. Coming to the rest of us soon...

..and what everybody seems to ignore, are the social implications of the social experiment.

30 years after these requirements are in effect, the dynamics of free enterprise now have responded.

The high quality people who weren’t previously hired because they didn’t fit the minority status, didn’t just die.

Instead a whole new industry of ‘Minority Subcontractors’ have emerged, with the firms essentially being operated and maintained by whites and some minorities who have learned the system, and have tooled up to compete by those new criterion for other contracts.

The only problem is that those factors aren’t the ones favoring quality, so the entire industry is lowered in standards and in future capacity to grow because their future associations are still geared towards those quotas.

IMHO, these artificial constraints have done more damage to American Integrity than improve any social ill.