a message to Jay 4200

$1M0N Did you even read that??? It's not a poll -- it was an audit in which **trained pairs of individiuals** went into real estate agent with only one variable each time: the colour of their skin. This is exactly how you perform such experiments... control all variables except the ones you are interested in. In this study, white people were shown houses that others weren't.

Yes, I do really think that. Certainly, most real estate agents wouldn't, but if you deny that there are not people who would do so, you are living in an alternate reality to me.

You are putting words into my mouth. Never did I say absolutely ANYTHING like that. I said that I have never been racially abused, and I suspect neither have any of my family, and yet you wouldn't be able to find anyone from a minority group who could say the same. Therefore, I conclude that it's not as much of a problem for whites and other minority groups.

If they were encouraging their rather large mate to do so, I would.

No, again you miss the point. I'm saying they are disadvantaged by the fact that they are up against people who are not unlike you.

So why aren't you making complaints about this???

Now you're getting it!! 5 year olds can't compete in the men's league, so they get their own league.... understand?? It's not age discrimination is it?

No, I don't know if employers in the UK are, but in other countries they certainly are. The reason is because minorities are not represented correctly in the workplace, because they are being interviewed by people who are biased against them. The quotas that employers have to fill is based on the percentage of the population that is qualified for a particular job, so filling quotas means that employers that would otherwise not give a job to the best qualified person who is also from a minority, would start giving jobs to those deserving to help fill their quota. I think there is a quota for white people too.

I'm not labeling all black people as this, but there are quite a few of them It's also because of the people that fail to hire them when they are the best for the job.