On 2013-07-15, at 6:43 PM, Marv Gandall wrote:
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> On 2013-07-15, at 2:38 PM, Wojtek S wrote:
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>> Marv: "Why is racism, for you, a sufficient explanation of the distortions
>> in the US criminal justice system, but "does not explain why guys like
>> Martin have it difficult to find a decent job"?"
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>> [WS:] As I and others said times and again on this list, the reasons why
>> people do not get good jobs have everything to do with the credentialing
>> system in hiring and obstacles to obtaining those credentials - which has
>> everything to do with shitty labor laws, shitty school curricula, shitty
>> public services, effects of poverty, property ownership - to name a
>> few. Therefore,
>> if some people do not get a job because they do not have proper
>> qualifications or credentials regardless of the color of their skin, you
>> cannot use skin color as an explanation. You need to look why that person
>> does not have those required qualifications and credentials. Talking about
>> skin color in this context just because it is statistically correlated and
>> because it makes a good story obfuscates the issue, and thus it is
>> counterproductive.
So much for affirmative action programs and prohibitions against discrimination on the basis of race, colour, sex, religion and other grounds in federal equal employment opportunity (EEO) legislation.
Too bad you weren't around at the time to advise the civil rights movement that its demands were "obsfucatory" and that mobilizing its base required that it press for "fair credentialing" laws instead.