Hiring Minorities

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Term Paper Title	Hiring Minorities
# of Words	1980
# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	7.92

Hiring Minorities

Hiring Minorities

       In recent years preferential hiring has become an issue of great
interest.  Preferential hiring, which was devised to create harmony between the
different races and sexes, has divided the lines even more.  Supporters on both
sides seem fixed in their positions and often refuse to listen to the other
group's platform. In this essay, the recipients of preferential hiring will be
either black or female, and the position in question will be a professorship on
the university level.  The hirings in question are cases that involve several
candidates, all roughly equal in their qualifications (including experience,
education, people skills, etc.), with the only difference being race and/or sex.
     What we have here is a case of predetermined preference. The two
candidates in question are equal in all ways, except race. The black applicant
is selected, not because of skills or qualifications (in that case the white man
would have provided the same result), but for his skin color.  This seems to be
blatant discrimination, but many believe it is justified.  Some feel retribution
for years of discrimination is reason enough, but that issue will be discussed
later.  First, lets focus on why this is not a solution to creating an unbiased
society.
     Martin Luther King Jr. had a dream: "I have a dream that my four little
children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the
color of their skin, but by the content of their character."  He desired a world
without discrimination, without prejudice, and without stereotypes.  The
fundamental lesson years of discrimination should have taught is that to give
anyone preference based on skin color, sex, or religious beliefs is, in one word,
wrong.  As Martin Luther King Jr. stated, judgment based on skin color must not
exist.  All preferential hiring does is keep judgments based on skin color alive.
Race and sex should not be issues in today's society, yet preferential hiring
continues to make these factors issues by treating minorities as a group rather
than as individuals.  More importantly preferential hiring may actually fuel,
rather than extinguish, feelings of racial hostility.
     Applying the concept of preferential hiring to another situation may
help elucidate its shortcomings.  A party of white men and a party of black men
both arrive at a restaurant at the same time and only one table is free. The
headwaiter can only seat one party and must make a decision. ...

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