(02-27-2023, 01:14 PM)mikesez Wrote: The point, on the hiring end, is to make sure you are recruiting all of the qualified people from all minority groups. And on the school end, to make sure that kids from minority groups that historically don't seek certain jobs know that there are opportunities in that field even if there aren't, at the moment, many people who look like them in that field yet.

But no one actually thinks you should lower your standards or pass over better candidates just to get a minority hire.

So, you are saying that if I happen to be a really talented white basketball player, that I'm not going to have the drive to become what I'm good at because I don't see many white players in the NBA? Really? People who know what they are gifted to be good at and are driven to become that are going to overcome the obstacles. Ben Carson comes to mind here.

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