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To: Rodney King
Not anymore. Now they major in African-American studies, and everybody passes.

I can't wait to interview a job candidate with "Afro-American Studies" listed as their major. I will laugh them out of my office.
72 posted on 05/30/2002 6:16:13 PM PDT by LetsRok
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To: LetsRok
I can't wait to interview a job candidate with "Afro-American Studies" listed as their major. I will laugh them out of my office.

And then you will likely be sued, if the job requirement was simply "bachelors degree" or some such.

Way back when, employers could just hire kids straight out of high-school, give them a simple test to see if they knew how to read and write well, and put them to work. Then the feds decreed that such tests, if they had "racially disparate impact" (i.e. more whites passed than blacks), were discriminatory and thus forbidden. So employers then started makeing college a requirement, on the assumption that they would wind up with people who were somewhat literate, and the response was to create nonsense-degrees so that the stubbornly-illiterate could meet the job requirements

96 posted on 06/15/2002 6:46:09 PM PDT by SauronOfMordor
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