I have a friend in North Carolina, who manages a Chiropractic office. The Company that provides the office staff gives an online “assessment” to prospective employees. A recent candidate who has a Master’s degree from a well known HBCU, applied for an entry level office position and scored a 7. That’s 7 out of 100, with a Master’s degree.
I can absolutely believe it.
Just having potential employees write a five-sentence paragraph can tell you a lot.
In the end, it doesn’t matter much; if larger companies don’t have their allotment of employees from the Island of Broken Toys, then they are sued for tons of money - and must take on extra toys as reparations. This isn’t even concealed in companies with government contracts, or those offered tax breaks to locate in urban sh!tholes.
One of the alphabet networks did a cloying story about needing more black male doctors as positive role models. An incoming medical student actually admitted on TV he had to take the entrance exam FOUR times (the MCAT, I assume) to finally get admitted to Morehouse School of Medicine.
And patients are supposed to believe that he is equivalent to someone who aces college and the MCAT? No thanks. If he makes it through med school, it’ll be with constant pampering, lower standards, and plenty of free tutoring. Yet he’ll still get the M.D. after his name.