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 sex.
What we have here is a case of predetermined preference. The two
candidates in question are equal in all ways, except race. The black applicannot
is selected, not because of skills or qualifications (in that case the white man
would have provided the same result), but for his skin color. This seems to be
blatant discrimination, but many believe it is justified. Some feel retribution
for years of discrimination is reason enough, but that issue will be discussed
later. First, lets focus on why this 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 discrim ...