http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griggs_..._Power_Company

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grutter_v._Bollinger

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratz_v._Bollinger

http://www.answers.com/topic/wygant-...on?cat=biz-fin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_...rkers_v._Weber

http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/htm...0_0616_ZS.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of...J.A._Croson_Co.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adarand...s_v._Pe%C3%B1a

Did you not see the part where I said "same as any other business person?"
I'll thank you not to hang the "I have black friends" label on me until you see me using that lame fall-back.

His comedy actually is true.
He touches & nails a few great topics in his comedy.

The best way to secure a job is to make yourself marketable by obtaining relevant skills and education.

To that end I worked through college (twice) and would be looking for jobs in areas in which I have related experience.

I guess the best way to ensure you get a chance at a job is to be professional and build up your qualifications.

Yes, I particularly enjoy the bit about going to the ATM. Did you like that one?

You're missing something, though. It's the fact that even though nearly everyone has to work hard, white people are still more likely to be hired simply based on skin color.

Where do you get your data? Sounds like speculation to me.

I've sat in on corporate hiring efforts where a black person was specifically sought out in order to satisfy OFCCP requirements. It felt funny talking with the candidate when you knew they were only being hired to placate a govt. regulation.

Funny you ask that... that's one of my favorite points in his stand-up because it's SO TRUE.

I'm not ducking that minority personal responsibility is key too. Actually I'm actively for it and have had numerous debates within CP concerning it.

Is it true? I just found it funny. Chris Rock cracks me up big time.

I've always agreed with that also...
We as minorities have too many options not to succeed today. If we fail it's no one's fault but our own.

LMAO

Whoever has the money has the power
we will all be answering to Arabie

I have interviewed and made hiring decisions before. Not for degree-required jobs, but for some other types of jobs that are unskilled labor basically.

I can tell you that I make a lot of visual judgments. You can tell a lot about people in the first 10 seconds of an interview just by whether or not they bothered to dress professionally, if they bother to sit up straight, make eye contact with you. If they are well-spoken, call you by your name, etc.

I've interviewed way more people who were total jerkoffs who were white kids from the suburbs. I think that when the black kid came in looking for a job for the summer or part time, he felt like he had to impress or he wasn't going to get it. I hired minority applicants all the time, it wasn't that way, but I felt like maybe that was their attitude.

In any case, I'll fill a role with a person who thinks they are at a disadvantage and will have to work hard and make it over someone who just comes in to an interview wearing everyday clothes, slouching and acting bored, already asking about pay raises and days off. Don't matter what color you are.

I think there's a kernel of truth in that if you meet these people I was talking to, ages 16-25 approximately, the ones who thought they were entitled to something were generally white.

First you get the money
Then you get the power
All I have in this world
Is my balls, and my word.
Balls and my word.

All I have in this world, ....

(the Ghetto Boys bring it home)

I like his distinction between wealthy and rich. To paraphrase again:

Wealthy people open schools and change communities. Rich people can blow all their money with a drug habit and end up singing Superfreak in Old Navy ads.