Corporate America Promised to Hire a Lot More People of Color. It Actually Did. The year after Black Lives Matter protests, the S&P 100 added more than 300,000 jobs — 94% went to people of color.
Whites were obviously hired at a rate that is a tiny fraction of their population in the workforce.
My guess is that the number of people identifying as white on applications is plummeting. Anyone can identify as Hispanic. Anyone can identify as mixed race.
That is not a lie in spite of what headlines may say.
Given the racist policies, anyone who identifies as white on an application for a job or college admission is just plain stupid at this point.
Blatantly racist government policies used to mean that people tried to pass off as white.
Now blatantly racist policies are making that true for whites passing off as something else. That is frequently also true for Asians as well.
Is it time to end race-based discrimination?
Or should whites and Asians just identify as something else?
I heard a story from a woman doctor that applied to medical school in Virginia in the 1960s. The interviewer told her something like, “We admit 70 in-state, 30 out-of-state, two blacks, two Jews, and one woman, and honey you are not going to be it.” There is a reason why Jews frequently anglicized their names.
Similar things are still going on, only the current push is to limit white and Asian applicants.
Should whites and Asians change their last names to Gonzalez?