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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (6614)	4/7/2003 12:11:57 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7689

Laz, the terminology and methodology and sensitivity changed a number of times over the years as something constructive morphed into something else. I was there, right in the middle of it, when it was "equal employment opportunity" rather than "civil rights." "Affirmative action" in its original incarnation meant what I said it did. Employers had been using the fact that no blacks applied for jobs as an excuse for not hiring any. Of course, they didn't apply because they knew they weren't welcome so why bother. Affirmative action meant that employers had to take affirmative steps to find black candidates and to create a workplace that was receptive to them. That's the way it started. You may not be old enough to remember that or you may not have seen it from close enough to appreciate the subtleties. A bit of historical trivia for you. It was many years before employers were permitted to collect and store race designations in their employee records. And many more years before employees got to self designate rather than be surreptitiously eyeballed by the personnel office. Made it kinda hard to report progress...