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I was recently let go from my job of 4 years as a corporate recruiter for questioning their hiring practices. I simply asked what our tolerance was with people's conviction records. There was an applicant who'd been convicted of burglary in 1994 (13 years ago). This applicant hadn't been in any trouble since, had a stable work history and wasn't the most eligible candidate according to my boss. He fired me two days after our conversation for misconduct...
I have been looking for work since 06/25/2007, to no avail. I have a degree in accounting, speak Spanish fluently, am computer literate and have over 11 years of administrative experience...very employable, right?
Well today I found out that my own arrest/conviction record will stand in the way of me getting even a temporary assignment. My conviction was for disorderly conduct....no jail time - - just a fine I had to pay and I was made to apologize to the officer I cussed out!
PLEASE comment on this one folks...does this NOT qualify as profiling as it relates to a job? Am I being unreasonable to expect to be able to find work within my field when I am perfectly qualified? (NO FELONIES)
P.S. In the same case I was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia. That charge was dismissed. The agency still asked me about it though.
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With Black History month approaching, I felt that this would be a topic to discuss. There is even a black man running for President now....so, how is it that things like the man in the picture (Frank Jude - Milwaukee, WI) are still going on? I also wanted to include in this comment/question a link to a site that address this question in a positive way....
By looking at the history of black folks in America, we understand this system's general attitude/stance towards blacks (especially males...see Black Holocaust Museum http://www.blackholocaustmuseum.org/ for more information). It's high time some true media coverage be given to this subject....racism today...because it DOES exist!
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The recent racial hate crime committed in Arlington, TX spurred an outpouring of support for the victims from both the city government and its residentsThe recent racial hate crime committed in Arlington, TX spurred an outpouring of... more
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The following are examples of ways white individuals have privilege because they are white. Please
read the list and place a check next to the privileges that apply to you or that you have
encountered. At the end, try to list at least two more ways you have privilege based on your race.
___ 1. I can arrange to be in the company of people of my race most of the time.
___ 2. I can go shopping alone most of the time, pretty well assured that I will not be followed
or harassed.
___ 3. I can turn on the television or open to the front page of the paper and see people of my
race widely represented.
___ 4. When I am told about our national heritage or about “civilization,” I am shown that people
of my color made it what it is.
___ 5. I can be sure that my children will be given curricular materials that testify to the
existence of their race.
___ 6. I can go into a music shop and count on finding the music of my race represented, into a
supermarket and find the food I grew up with, into a hairdresser’s shop and find someone
who can deal with my hair.
___ 7. Whether I use checks, credit cards, or cash, I can count on my skin color not to work
against the appearance of financial responsibility.
___ 8. I am not made acutely aware that my shape, bearing, or body odor will be taken as a
reflection on my race.
___ 9. I can worry about racism without being seen as self-interested or self-seeking.
___ 10. I can take a job or enroll in a college with an affirmative action policy without having my
co-workers or peers assume I got it because of my race.
___ 11. I can be late to a meeting without having the lateness reflect on my race.
___ 12. I can choose public accommodation with out fearing that people of my race cannot get in
or will be mistreated.
___ 13. I am never asked to speak for all of the people of my racial group.
___ 14. I can be pretty sure that if I ask to talk with the “person in charge” I will be facing a
person of my race.
___ 15. If a traffic cop pulls me over or if the IRS audits my tax return, I can be sure I haven’t
been singled out because of my race.
___ 16. I can easily by posters, postcards, picture books, greeting cards, dolls, toys, and
children’s magazines featuring people of my race.
___ 17. I can choose blemish cover or bandages in “flesh” color and have them more or less match
my skin.
___ 18. I can do well in a challenging situation without being called a credit to my race.
___ 19. I can walk into a classroom and know I will not be the only member of my race.
___ 20. I can enroll in a class at college and be sure that the majority of my professors will be of
my race.The following are examples of ways white individuals have privilege because they are... more
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white privilege, a social relation
1. a. A right, advantage, or immunity granted to or enjoyed by white persons beyond the common advantage of all others; an exemption in many particular cases from certain burdens or liabilities.
b. A special advantage or benefit of white persons; with reference to divine dispensations, natural advantages, gifts of fortune, genetic endowments, social relations, etc.
2. A privileged position; the possession of an advantage white persons enjoy over non?white persons.
3. a. The special right or immunity attaching to white persons as a social relation; prerogative.
b. display of white privilege, a social expression of a white person or persons demanding to be treated as a member or members of the socially privileged class.
4. a. To invest white persons with a privilege or privileges; to grant to white persons a particular right or immunity; to benefit or favor specially white persons; to invest white persons with special honorable distinctions.
b. To avail oneself of a privilege owing to one as a white person.
5. To authorize or license of white person or persons what is forbidden or wrong for non?whites; to justify, excuse.
6. To give to white persons special freedom or immunity from some liability or burden to which non?white persons are subject; to exempt.white privilege, a social relation
1. a. A right, advantage, or immunity granted to... more
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A recent slide show by an unidentified Glamour editor on the "Do's and Dont's of Corporate Fashion" at a New York law firm shed some light on the topic, according to this month's American Lawyer magazine.A recent slide show by an unidentified Glamour editor on the "Do's and... more
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The incident that Rosenberg is talking about involves Ashley Baker, a white former associate editor at Glamour, who touched off a firestorm of controversy last summer when she told a roomful of female attorneys at law firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton that afro-style hairdos and dreadlocks are Glamour "don'ts."
" 'No offense,' she sniffed, but those 'political hairstyles really have to go,' " reported American Lawyer magazine, which first broke the story.
Stripped of its appalling delivery, was Baker's observation wrong?
"Black hair is sensitive," said Anna Holmes, the managing editor of Jezebel, a celebrity, sex and fashion blog for women, which followed the Baker story closely. "What Baker said was inappropriate, but was she inaccurate? No. She hit a nerve ... society is uncomfortable with ethnic hair and it is uncomfortable about race. And it's tough talking about all of it because emotion gets in the way."
Over the years, lawsuits have been filed against companies for discriminating against black employees for their ethnic hairstyles. Corporate-image experts, both black and white, subtly advise black women to remove their braids, dreadlocks and other ethnic hairdo before interviewing at corporate jobs, experts confideThe incident that Rosenberg is talking about involves Ashley Baker, a white former... more
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Miko Marks
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Persia White has been on "Girlfriends" for 8 seasons. The show is on Mondays @ 9PM on The CW.Persia White has been on "Girlfriends" for 8 seasons. The show is on... more
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