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From: root@bu-cs.UUCP (Barry Shein)
Newsgroups: net.women,net.politics,net.social
Subject: Re: The funny thing about the opponents of AA
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Date: Thu, 20-Jun-85 19:57:35 EDT
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I can't resist relating the story of a good friend of mine
(who was black):

He had just graduated an ivy league college with straight A's, had two
published books, one had gone on to paperback (if you don't know the
publishing industry, that takes good sales.)  Numerous published
articles, guest columns in some of the most widely circulated magazines
and newspapers in the country, need I go on? Hi boards, you bet, well
spoken etc, you bet...

He got into a good law school, a professor there took him aside to
mention to him how much he resented his presence as a 'quota' student
(which he wasn't except maybe in the statistics, certainly not as was
meant by the callous remark: ie. that he hadn't earned his class place.)
No, the prof didn't know what he was talking about, just flaming.

UGGGH! I get embarrassed for humanity just thinking about it!

I know, you'll say "he's not what we are talking about, it's the
unqualified ones...". I'll say, most of you don't know *what* you are
talking about, you're just trying to cover up cruelty with facile equity
arguments. Qualifications are not carved in stone, I do hiring here and
I have never hired two people for exactly the same reasons or criteria.

It's a nice fantasy to think you hire only based on (whatever impersonal
objective abstractions you think are 'fair'.) B******T, when you give a
person a job you are doing two things 1) you are providing a person to
your organization who should perform some task and 2) you are
influencing that person and the world around them. Anyone who won't take
(2) into account is too small minded to be working as management.
Whaddya think, the only time you make 'social' decisions is when you
walk into a voting booth? Grow up.

	-Barry Shein, Boston University