home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Xref: sparky alt.discrimination:5452 soc.culture.african.american:13230 misc.education:5541
- Newsgroups: alt.discrimination,soc.culture.african.american,misc.education
- Path: sparky!uunet!wupost!darwin.sura.net!gatech!concert!samba!usenet
- From: Terry.Parks@launchpad.unc.edu (Terry Parks)
- Subject: Re: Institutional racism in education
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.043145.13165@samba.oit.unc.edu>
- Sender: usenet@samba.oit.unc.edu
- Nntp-Posting-Host: lambada.oit.unc.edu
- Organization: UNC Office of Information Technology
- References: <1992Dec16.191319.26213@oracle.us.oracle.com> <1992Dec17.014203.17494@samba.oit.unc.edu> <1992Dec21.014526.21601@oracle.us.oracle.com>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 04:31:45 GMT
- Lines: 34
-
- >>>1. Union seniority rules
-
- >>Could you explain how giving a Blak worker with 20 years service
- >>preferences over a Caucasian worker with 5 years serivce benefits the
- >Caucasian worker?
-
- >It doesn't. However, Blacks are more likely to be more recently hired
- >than Whites.
-
- I thought the party line was that whites are 3 to 5 times more likely to
- be hired than blacks. It would better serve the pro-racism forces to
- get their propaganda in sync.
-
- >>>2. Blacks are more likely to work in the hardest hit sector - low
- >>>skill, low wage work.
-
- >>So some Blaks engage in low skill, low wage work and some Caucasians
- >>engage in low skill, low wage work. Given that far more Caucasians live
- >>in poverty, how does adversity for the poor benefit them?
-
- >Terry, please learn to read. I never said that adversity for the poor
- >benefited Caucasians. Also, you really do need to look at percentages
- >here.
-
- Why? With far more Caucasians living in proverty than Blaks, having any
- race bias in aid to the needy be given to Caucasians would have the
- most beneficial effect.
-
-
- --
- The opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the University of
- North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Campus Office for Information
- Technology, or the Experimental Bulletin Board Service.
- internet: laUNChpad.unc.edu or 152.2.22.80
-