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<< Why Drug Corps Hate Drug Benefit | Main | Christianity: Religion of Peace? >> August 24, 2003Better To Be White Felon Than Honest BlackWant to know why affirmative action and other more activist programs are necessary? Because hard-core racism is pervasive throughout the economy. Nothing better illustrates this than research by Devah Pager, who won this year's Dissertation Award from the American Sociological Association. for research studying how incarceration effects a person's ability to get a job. Sending out matched resumes where the only differences were whether the candidate was white or black and a former felon or not, Prager found the usual fact that black applicants get fewer interviews than white applicants. But most shocking-- "black non-offenders fall behind even whites with prior felony convictions.” Repeat that-- a white criminal gets more job interviews than a black person with no record at all. It almost boggles the mind that there are people who maintain that racism is no longer prevalent in our society. Thanks to Crooked Timber. Posted by Nathan at August 24, 2003 12:56 AM Related posts:
Trackback PingsTrackBack URL for this entry: CommentsThat correlates nicely with the recent UChicago study that found people with "black-sounding" names were less likely to get job call-backs than those with "white-sounding" names. Well, not "nicely", but I think you know what I mean. I just don't understand this. I've never understood it, really... Posted by: Kenneth G. Cavness at August 24, 2003 01:55 PM more going on here than racism Posted by: Ugh at August 25, 2003 11:33 PM I'M TAking classes at the college in my town to be a surgical technoligist but i just started thinking laitly that i have been convicted of a felony about three years ago and i'm still on parole for it and i'm wondering know will i even find anyone willing to hire a felon at a hospital if anyone has usefull info for me please email me at yourboy131@hotmail.com thanks. tim Posted by: tim lasley at October 27, 2003 03:54 PM I'M TAking classes at the college in my town to be a surgical technoligist but i just started thinking laitly that i have been convicted of a felony about three years ago and i'm still on parole for it and i'm wondering know will i even find anyone willing to hire a felon at a hospital if anyone has usefull info for me please email me at yourboy131@hotmail.com thanks. tim Posted by: tim lasley at October 27, 2003 03:54 PM I'M TAking classes at the college in my town to be a surgical technoligist but i just started thinking laitly that i have been convicted of a felony about three years ago and i'm still on parole for it and i'm wondering know will i even find anyone willing to hire a felon at a hospital if anyone has usefull info for me please email me at yourboy131@hotmail.com thanks. tim Posted by: tim lasley at October 27, 2003 03:55 PM It is interesting that you should write that white felons stand a better chance of getting a job than black non-felons. Case in point, a few weeks ago i met a white felon who works in a bank thru a temp agency. I am a black felon and i have been denied so many jobs, i wonder if i will ever find employment. Posted by: James Hall at February 28, 2004 12:10 AM Interesting!!! One of the "security" measures that have now been designed to put another economic and social noose around minorities necks-especially blacks is to require all kinds of id, background checks, credit histories for even the simplest life transactions. Trust me-if there is even the least little "black mark" you can rest assured you will not get the job,promotion,apartment etc. etc. Posted by: d bryant at March 15, 2004 10:20 PM D. Bryant... per your finding of the white felon that works @ the bank, I would like to know where that is...I am a white felon myself, and haven't been able to get a job to save my life. Posted by: Angie Kuykendall at June 23, 2004 11:48 PM wanted SQL user). want. Posted by: rape videos at September 1, 2004 11:28 AM Post a comment
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