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1 posted on 04/26/2012 4:28:04 PM PDT by ColdOne
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The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's updated policy on criminal background checks is part of an effort to rein in practices that can limit job opportunities for minorities that have higher arrest and conviction rates than whites.

What a racist thing to say....

2 posted on 04/26/2012 4:30:06 PM PDT by TheDon (The Democrat Party, the party of the KKK (tm))
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Bad, bad; thanks for the information.


3 posted on 04/26/2012 4:30:06 PM PDT by Ace's Dad (Reagan Contra; in-country off the USS Racine.)
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Islamic terrorist ‘soldiers’ infiltrating the USofA are the ones this communist/Islamic administration are trying to protect. The sooner Americans realize this current administration is working for the Muslim conquering of the West, the sooner we can clean the house of the filth. It may already be too late, because the vermin media are too well entrenched in shaping the thinking of the sheeple. ... And no one is oiling the guillotines


4 posted on 04/26/2012 4:34:15 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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Is an arrest in a barroom brawl 20 years ago a job disqualifier?

That is for the prospective employer to decide.

5 posted on 04/26/2012 4:35:33 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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If there is a federally regulated “blank” in a job seekers record, the Human Resources manager need only ask the applicant what happened during that “blank.”

Nobody is going to hire a blank slate—better to employ an honest bad person trying to be better.

This policy is also intended to build resentment in minorities of color.


6 posted on 04/26/2012 4:37:43 PM PDT by Happy Rain ("Not all Democrats are Bums but all Bums are Democrats".)
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The Obama administration is saying that minorities are most likely to have commuted a crime.

Fits with Jessie Jackson's assessment as well:

''There is nothing more painful for me at this stage in my life,'' Jesse Jackson said several years ago, ''than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery -- and then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.''

The Color of Suspicion
Published: June 20, 1999
(Page 5 of 20)
http://www.nytimes.com/1999/06/20/magazine/the-color-of-suspicion.html?pagewanted=5

7 posted on 04/26/2012 4:38:00 PM PDT by NoLibZone (I'm with Sarah Palin and Dick Cheney - Anybody but Obama, because I trust their judgment.)
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W.

T.

F...


8 posted on 04/26/2012 4:38:38 PM PDT by chris37 (Heartless.)
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All other standards everywhere else have been so lowered so that Blacks qualify...WHY NOT.

Go to a government office these days and try to get a Black person to help you. Good luck.

BTW, this (lowering the standards) started 45 years ago with schoool teachers and school integration.

Now you have to hire 'X' number of unqualified Blacks even when there are other qualified people available.

Hard work, dedication, and achievement no longer matter.

10 posted on 04/26/2012 4:45:54 PM PDT by blam
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"The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's updated policy on criminal background checks is part of an effort to rein in practices that can limit job opportunities for minorities that have higher arrest and conviction rates than whites."

Or the employer could just do more hiring for factory positions in China and India and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission can pound sand. Then they can say they'll hire all the minority Ph.D.s and engineers in their field that they can find.

The strategy seems to work for Apple Computer. Why would any employer in their right mind want to deal with this?

11 posted on 04/26/2012 4:46:43 PM PDT by Sooth2222 ("Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself." M.Twain)
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so now, if an employer cares about arrest records they’ll have to base decisions on the group a potential employee belongs too (e.g. race) rather than the background of the specific employee they are interviewing? And the people ordering these limits are admitting that some groups of people have higher arrest records than others. Either their motives aren’t what they claim, or they aren’t thinking (my guess is that they aren’t thinking)


15 posted on 04/26/2012 4:56:38 PM PDT by LostPassword
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SOLUTION: Just “Circular File” all applicants with Afrocentric names. The drug screen will take care of the rest.


17 posted on 04/26/2012 5:02:07 PM PDT by wetgundog (" Extremism in the Defense of Liberty is no Vice")
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part of an effort to rein in practices that can limit job opportunities for minorities that have higher arrest and conviction rates than whites.

Well duh. That’s the whole point of background checks. It’s easier to keep them out beforehand than it is to get rid of them after they repeatedly eff up on the job


18 posted on 04/26/2012 5:02:49 PM PDT by Figment
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U.S. Puts Limits On Employee Background Checks To Protect Minorities

How about protecting us?

19 posted on 04/26/2012 5:05:17 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
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Yet another example of the progressives trying to legislate outcomes rather than opportunities. And, like the others, this is destined to fail in the long run.

It’s time for minorities of all stripes to accept responsibility for their lot in life. This garbage notion of restricting use of criminal background data in making hiring decisions should rather be a wake-up call for folks to maybe NOT GET ARRESTED, maybe STAY OUT OF TROUBLE...


21 posted on 04/26/2012 5:08:38 PM PDT by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. 01-20-2013: Change we can look forward to.)
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later


22 posted on 04/26/2012 5:10:01 PM PDT by berdie
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Lefties believe that Erie Holder's people are inferior, which is why they consider it to be racist to hold them to the same standards as everyone else.

But don't you dare call THEM the racists!

23 posted on 04/26/2012 5:12:51 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Government is the religion of the sociopath.)
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Let me guess. They’ve been using the Secret Service as a test case for this approach for the past few years, and so far it’s working out great.


24 posted on 04/26/2012 5:13:24 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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So criminal background checks are now considered racist?


25 posted on 04/26/2012 5:23:45 PM PDT by MNDude
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Eventually what’s going to happen with this insane policy is some newly hired “deserving” ex-con is going to assault or rape or rob another non-deserving employee at his company and Mr non-deserving employee, when they’re released from the hospital is going to be part owner of said company after they win their lawsuits.


28 posted on 04/26/2012 5:52:37 PM PDT by Larry381 ("Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.")
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On my first real job at Bell Aerospace which, of course, had mostly government contracts, I had to obtain a security clearance before I could be hired. Now, this was just after we stopped using Roman Numerals, well actually late 1960s.

Even back then the government was in the business of racist discrimination as there was a directive for Bell and others to actively seek minorities (at that time there was really on one minority involved) with .... wait for it...... criminal records. WTF?

Bad enough our government was directly involved in racist hiring practices but to give additional points for criminal records was just beyond logic in this universe.

There are so few things government does well it simply points to the brilliance of the Founders who did everything possible to limit its size and power. Too bad we have let them down.


29 posted on 04/26/2012 6:02:15 PM PDT by Wurlitzer (Welcome to the new USSA (United Socialist States of Amerika))
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