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5 Apr 11

"I would never, ever hire someone with a “black” name on their resume. I wouldn’t even interview them."

An African American co-worker at a team dinner.  (via microaggressions)

(Source: microaggressions)

  1. theworldisnotenough1 reblogged this from robot-heart-politics and added:
    Read Freakonomics for more on racism based on name. Basically this exact situation occurs.
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  6. spokenbeats reblogged this from staticquo and added:
    Self hatred and the unattainable expectations of whiteness are something else.
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  9. antesdachuva reblogged this from locomotives and added:
    ‘An African American co-worker at a team dinner.’ God DAMN. Just… I have no words.
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  12. twcflorkin reblogged this from karmajesus and added:
    hold the phone, that is some bullshit. i have a lot of issues, but this one, just, what the fuck, man?!
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    I just wrote a piece on this very topic. In sociology, it’s called internalization of dominant norms, or, to put it more...
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    Is it sad that I always think this is why I seldom receive job interviews? I mean once during an interview one lady told...
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