Hiring Minorities
In recent years preferential hiring has become an issue of great
interest. Preferential hiring, which was devised to create harmony between the
different races and sexes, has divided the lines even more. Supporters on both
sides seem fixed in their positions and often refuse to listen to the other
group's platform. In this essay, the recipients of preferential hiring will be
either black or female, and the position in question will be a professorship on
the university level. The hirings in question are cases that involve several
candidates, all roughly equal in their qualifications (including experience,
education, people skills, etc.), with the only difference being race and/or ...
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is not a solution to creating an unbiased
society.
Martin Luther King Jr. had a dream: "I have a dream that my four little
children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the
color of their skin, but by the content of their character." He desired a world
without discrimination, without prejudice, and without stereotypes. The
fundamental lesson years of discrimination should have taught is that to give
anyone preference based on skin color, sex, or religious beliefs is, in one word,
wrong. As Martin Luther King Jr. stated, judgment based on skin color must not
exist. All preferential hiring does is keep judgments based on skin color alive.
Race and sex should not be issues in today's society, yet preferential hiring
continues to make these factors issues by treating minorities as a group rather
than as individuals. More importantly preferential hiring may actually fuel,
rather than extinguish, feelings of racial hostility.
Applying the concept of ...
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others. The first point
Thomson quickly concedes as likely to be false. Discussion about the second
point however is required, and will, in effect, serve to negate the first point
as well.
First, lets create a character, Bill. Bill is grossly overweight and
unattractive. Studies have shown that many employers discriminate (whether
subconsciously or not), against both overweight and unattractive individuals.
Unfortunately for Bill, he fits into both categories. His inability to land a
job reflective of his abilities, coupled with years of public humiliation
through jokes made at his expense, has destroyed his self-esteem. This has
caused him to accept as fact the notion that he will ...
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