ù Quoting D.E. Bryant from a message to Don Box  ù 
DB> sound, but clients were not comfortable or used to the idea of a tall 
DB> black man as an adminassistant.  To please the client [and ensure 
DB> $$$] the agency indulged this clear bit of discrimination in the name 
You bring up a good point. A lot of the new job markets are for admin 
assistants; that is, if you don't want to be slinging burgers but you aren't 
qualified enough to go salary, you end up being a temp worker or an office 
assistant. Both jobs are pretty demeaning, and I think it has to do with the 
fact that the position is traditionally a woman's job (secretary), and so 
there
is a lot of sexism involved with that job.
DB> For every millionaire who succeeded there are 1000 who failed, Don.  
DB> And EVERY successful millionaire had help at every crucial moment 
DB> along the way.  One of the greatest innovators was Cecil Rhodes, the 
Absolutely. People make a big deal out of these "self-made millionaires" 
(like 
bill gates, who started his business with a loan from his father, something 
that most people don't get), forgetting that their story is a one in a 
million 
chance. And I do mean CHANCE because if you think for one minute that these 
people are somehow more intelligent, harder working, or more innovative than 
the guy working as a secretary, you are just buying into the crap that they 
feed us.
And to say that just because we have affirmative action now that racism in 
hiring is gone is naive. For minorities, it is still "last hired/first fired" 
and you can see it in the workplace every day. Where I work, they have just 
enough black people working there to make their quota. Being white, I have 
the 
misfortune of other white people thinking its okay to make racist comments to 
me. I've worked quite a few places where I've been told outright that they 
don't hire blacks. I worked at a construction company where applicants would 
come out to the job site, and the hiring manager would immediately disregard 
any applicant who was black.
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