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To: TigerPaw who wrote (330965)	12/19/2002 12:31:42 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Sorry, using the proportion of minorities in the general population, even if limited to a metro area, as the criterion is moronic. Blacks are woefully underrepresented in engineering and the hard sciences, for example. Therefore, no lab or research facility could possibly recruit 12- 20% black engineers or scientists within its commuting area, especially without shortchanging similarly situated facilities. The law allows a rebuttable inference that lack of "representation" equals discrimination, which is just nonsense, and there should be no reason to either have to incur the costs of defending oneself, or to have to make bogus hires in order to shield against liability. Additionally, there have been deleterious side-effects of some of these efforts. For example, competition for the best black students has harmed recruitment at historically black colleges. On the other hand, statistically, minority students tend to do better academically at historically black colleges, rather than in mostly- white, highly competitive universities. Also, since there are few blacks with advanced degrees in math and science, corporate recruitment has tended to empty out a lot of high schools, and some colleges, where black professors in such subjects might have provided an inspiration for future generations. These are but two examples of negative unintended consequences.......