[Michael2001]

I am not naive enough to think that discrimination no longer exists. At the same time it is my opinion that the majority of these claims are baseless. You don't get the promotion you want, just charge discrimination, and in today's environment you're bound to win.

I own a security firm with a few of my friends and I know for a fact that we have lost out on certain corporate jobs because we are white. I know this because the people we dealt with told us that we were their first choice but upper management told them to look for an African American firm. Of course we were angry but we didn't sue.

The fact that we are all white is not discrimination on our part. With the excpetion of one, all of our employees are Baptist too. It just so happens that the people we employ are our friends and family, and where I grew up everyone was white and Baptist.

Despite this, I know that if we were ever sued with a discrimination suit, we'd probably lose.

[A CA Guy]

Tort Reofrm......Tort Reform......Tort Reform

[ikka]

Reading the article, I can see a few things:

1. One plaintiff did get a better job and a pay raise, after jumping ship to another company. Thus, the original company was punished in the market, in that they lost a valuable employee.

2. Another plaintiff in the case spoke with senior mgmt about the "need" for more diversity - rather than focusing on what benefited the company. In some respects, he deserved to not be promoted, since the purpose of a company is not to be diverse, but to make money for the shareholders.

[ctn]

With greedy trial lawyers prodding them on, what's to prevent every African-American who's denied a raise or promotion from suing?

[judgeandjury]

You don't get the promotion you want, just charge discrimination, and in today's environment you're bound to win.

Exactly. But what this article makes me wonder is how many white employees nationwide feel that they didn't receive the promotions that they deserved. The black employees can sue for discrimination if they feel that they have been snubbed for promotions, but what can the white employees do if they feel that they have been snubbed? It looks like the scales are tilted in favor of the black employees.

[Drew68]

The day Ellen Early walked into her first Diversity Roundtable meeting

This is exactly why I walked away from my last job of four years in middle management and now paint and restore cars for a living.

[Henchman]

I agree. Yes there is discrimination. But it is also against Whites, particularly males. If you like it, keep voting Democratic. No where in these suits by minorities do they ever mention ability, education, experience etc - in essence all employment grinds down to "equality" as liberally defined (RACE) - not merit. In addition, the government EEO includes other minorities, who have no education and can hardly speak English. Speaking of English, I have noted a number of "English Accents" on TV lately, does England hire Americans for their TV?

BTW the government has institutionalized discrimination against Whites as Politically Correct.

[Holden Magroin]

You can think George Bush Sr. for this, since he was the one signed that idiotic Civil Rights Act of 1990.