Jobs: Better to be a white felon than black

nothingshocksmeanymore

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Sat Sep-13-03 03:21 PM
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Jobs: Better to be a white felon than black

Edited on Sat Sep-13-03 03:30 PM by nothingshocksmeanymo

This dissertation received an award. The author set out to discover how incarceration effects the ability to get a job. While incarceration did negatively effect all applicants, what she discovered was that a black applicant with NO felony record had a more difficult time than even a white felon.

So...will all the anti-affirmative action folks please explain this?

http://www.northwestern.edu/ipr/publications/papers/2002/WP-02-37.pdf

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Cheswick2.0

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Sat Sep-13-03 03:26 PM
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1. is this the link you wanted us to open?

It leads to another DU thread.

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nothingshocksmeanymore

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Sat Sep-13-03 03:30 PM
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2. Opps! fixed..thanks

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Cheswick2.0

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Sat Sep-13-03 03:45 PM
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3. excellent Dissertation

why is it that so many people think racism is not an issue anymore?

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salin

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Sat Sep-13-03 03:48 PM
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4. wrapping racism into affirmative action - and viewing

that from an entitlement perspective - as in - I -should be entitled to x or y.... and if I dont get it, it must be due to AA and someone else. Thus to be able to remove the barrier, one has to believe that the root problem that AA was set out to address has been "solved".

Often that thread can be seen woven into various discussions related to denying racism as an active and persistant problem in our society.

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Cheswick2.0

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Sat Sep-13-03 03:56 PM
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5. it is similar to the argument that we don't need feminism

the same people seem to make both arguments.

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DemocratSinceBirth

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Sat Sep-13-03 04:00 PM
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6. A Harvard Economist Conducted A Study That Suggested

that folks with white sounding names have a better chance of getting interviews based on resumes only than folks with black sounding names.

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nothingshocksmeanymore

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Sat Sep-13-03 04:04 PM
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7. Yes I recall that..in fact, it was posted on DU

It does dovetail into this conversation as well.

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salin

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Sat Sep-13-03 04:55 PM
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9. one of the researchers was U of Chicago

was a depressing report - as it shows that there is so much more progress that still needs to happen.

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buddhamama

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Sat Sep-13-03 04:18 PM
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8. i am for Affirmative Action

because racism still exists.

there was thread recently in the Civil Rights forum about a Fed. Suit(forget what branch ruled) that reversed the hiring of black applicants over the whites- they brought the suit because they whites scored higher on the required test.

i'm sure the white males wanted to blame Affirmative Action but there is something else to consider here, higher test scores don't necessarily make you the better choice in hiring. like University applications, test scores are only a part of the total students 'package'.

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w4rma

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Sat Sep-13-03 05:03 PM
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10. That's EX-felon. Once they serve the time, they are no longer felons (n/t)

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