Senator Bigot

[hermit22]

Well, he's resigning as Majority Leader, so it's all over anyway.

And as for affirmative action - I've been generally on the fence on the whole thing for the past few years, but when I read this study , I felt I had no choice but to move myself in favor of it. The authors of the study sent out resumes with "black sounding" names and "white sounding" names and found that the black names got significantly lower callbacks than the white ones. In addition, when the credentials on the resume were increased, this made little difference for the black candidates, but a significant impact on white ones.

Of course, it doesn't prove that the owners of the business were racist, but it does show that there is still an economic disparity.

I know this isn't necessarily on topic, but I thought I'd throw it out there anyway. Thread hijacking, here we come!