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Even if every company wanted to be a perfect racial quotation of the percentage proportions of the general population, there aren't really enough qualified minorities of some types to go around. Some groups exceed where others miserably fail, and unless you are doling out brainless slave labor only the amount of some people in certain fields is going to be artificially inflated unless employers drop their standards completely. To demand quotas blindly is to reduce people to numbers. You aren't the person who is most suited to the position due to your skill set and ethics, rather you are part of the 14 or some such percent that a company HAS to have. There seems to be a pervasive view that minorities are desperate to work anywhere (often implied by the people who are supposed to be "for" them), and that we can do anything if only the racists weren't so mean. I'd rather be taken into consideration for what I can bring to a company as opposed to just being handed things. I find it insulting. Some of us do value our freedom and like to weigh situations objectively for ourselves... you know, making our own informed decisions and such without coddling.
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Even if every company wanted to be a perfect racial quotation of the percentage proportions of the general population, there aren't really enough qualified minorities of some types to go around. Some groups exceed where others miserably fail, and unless you are doling out brainless slave labor only the amount of some people in certain fields is going to be artificially inflated unless employers drop their standards completely. To demand quotas blindly is to reduce people to numbers. You aren't the person who is most suited to the position due to your skill set and ethics, rather you are part of the 14 or some such percent that a company HAS to have. There seems to be a pervasive view that minorities are desperate to work anywhere (often implied by the people who are supposed to be "for" them), and that we can do anything if only the racists weren't so mean. I'd rather be taken into consideration for what I can bring to a company as opposed to just being handed things. I find it insulting. Some of us do value our freedom and like to weigh situations objectively for ourselves... you know, making our own informed decisions and such without coddling.