According to this study by the
Discrimination Research Center, temporary employment agencies were 3 times as likely to prefer a white applicant to an equally qualified black applicant.
Before we start beating up on kids and their parents, we need to address these hiring practices, which exist even in a supposedly progressive city like San Francisco.
Can we admit that discrimination exists, maybe not openly, but in a persistent and destructive way in this country ?
And if discrimination does exist, a cycle is set up that marginalizes large numbers of African-Americans, and others outside the power structure.
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