demonstrating the discrimination minorities face in the work place and in everyday activities. They showed the difference in how long it took a white man to hail a cab in NYC as compared to a black man. It was sad.

Several years ago, when I was in a paralegal program, part of which involved advising us about our resumes, we were also advised to make our resumes as neutral as possible. I must hasten to add that this was in Kansas, and every single one of us was white. But one or two students in the program were Jewish, and there may have been some other ethnic groups I missed. I can recall one young woman stating rather loudly that she would not even consider purging her resume of the things that identified her as Jewish.

On one hand, I admire her honesty, on the other, I thought she was being highly impractical.

I was married for twenty-five years to a Jewish man. Neither his name nor his appearance gave that away. In fact, he often found it quite amusing that he "passed" and of course had ways to signal his ethnicity to other Jews. He also found it quite interesting that for a number of years in a particular job, none of his co-workers had any idea he was Jewish, and so he could be a fly on the wall and listen to any comments that they made relevant to Jews.

interviewer raised her eyebrows and said to me, "Everyone in this company goes to church." Years later I realized that was her way of telling me that the company did not hire Jewish people. I am not Jewish. Far from it, so I was very puzzled. That happened in the early 1990s.

my then husband insisted on 'average' sounding names because as he said he did not want a future employer to look at her application and say "Black" into the circular file with it

that 30 years later this still exists is sad beyond words

Some resumes had 'white' names, others had 'black'.

You can guess what happened.

http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-201_162-575685.html

You might manage to get in the door and impress someone at an interview. But if your college graduation dates shows you are of a certain age, older than the employer intends to hire someone, you will be out before you get started.

Age discrimination, color discrimination and, yes, disability and gender discrimination are still barriers to getting an interview if they are discernible from your resume. That was my experience 20 years ago, and I think things have gotten worse, not better in this respect.

You'd think I be very aware of that since I'm 64.

We were also told to only list jobs and experience in the last ten years. If, like me, all of our job experience was longer ago than that, not to give the actual dates we worked, only the length of time and our duties and such like.

to combat rampant age discrimination. Sad and sorry truth: it works to get the interview, but once they see you're over 50, it's no dice. Really sure-fire sign that American capitalism (and possibly global capitalism) is in a late-term death spiral. Only question is whether it dies before I do, but it's a matter of time nevertheless.