More fun with systemic racism

[MU82]

Justice Department fines Va. tech firm over 'whites only' job posting

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/05/27/employment-discrimination-arthur-grand/?

A Virginia-based technology company will pay more than $38,000 in penalties for posting a discriminatory job advertisement that only sought to hire White U.S. citizens, the Justice Department announced.

Arthur Grand Technologies Inc., a firm that provides information technology services, in March 2023 posted a job advertisement for a business analyst position on the hiring site Indeed that asked in a bolded note for "Only Born US Citizens (White) who are local within 60 miles from Dallas," according to a Justice Department news release.

"Don't share with candidates," the advertisement read in brackets.

Here's the Justice Dept release: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-and-department-labor-secure-agreements-tech-company-resolve

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They apparently were too stoopid to realize they shouldn't have said the racism part out loud. Most companies that are party to systemic racism in this country are better at keeping it hush-hush.

[Jay Bee]

... so, not whites only

[MU82]

Yes, whites only. For some reason the first version I posted didn't print the whole thing correctly.

[rocky_warrior]

MUScoop's font color formatting make this one hard to post. 

Here's the actual quote
"Only Born US Citizens [White] who are local within 60 miles from Dallas, TX [Don't share with candidates]." The words in brackets are not paraphrases; they appeared in brackets in the posting, the Justice Department noted.

[MU82]

Eight unrelated men were asked to leave an American Airlines flight, allegedly because they had body odor.

And what a coincidence ... all eight happened to be Black.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2024/05/29/american-airlines-lawsuit-black-men-body-odor/?

The body odor complaint came from a White male flight attendant, according to the lawsuit filed by three of the men. The lawsuit says none of the men suing the airline had offensive body odor and that none were accused directly of an offense.

It "is near impossible to imagine that American would ever treat white customers in a similar manner," the lawsuit says.

[MU82]

Perched on a hill with a view of the Atlantic Ocean, the condo in Virginia Beach was just what Dr. Raven Baxter wanted. It had a marble fireplace, a private foyer and details like crown molding and wainscoting in its three bedrooms and three bathrooms.

At $749,000, it was within her budget, too. She offered the asking price, which was accepted, and sent over a down payment. And then when she was in escrow earlier this month, her broker called her late at night on May 17, a Friday, with some bad news.

The seller wanted to pull out of the deal.

Why? "You could hear the fear and disbelief in his voice," Dr. Baxter said, recalling what her broker told her next. "He said, 'I don't know how to tell you this, but she doesn't want to sell the home to you, and it's because you're Black.'"

The situation spilled out into the open a few hours later, when Dr. Baxter, 30, a molecular biologist and science communicator who runs the website Dr. Raven the Science Maven, shared what happened in a post on X. Her public airing to 163,000 followers and others has drawn attention to bias that continues to plague the housing industry, and the laws that are supposed to prohibit discrimination, even as Dr. Baxter took steps to continue to ultimately buy the condo.

Two federal laws — the Fair Housing Act of 1968 and the much older Civil Rights Act of 1866 — make it illegal for both home sellers and their real estate agents to discriminate during a home sale. But more than 50 years after redlining was outlawed, racial discrimination remains an issue, housing advocates say. A multiyear undercover investigation by the National Fair Housing Alliance, a Washington-based nonprofit coalition of housing organizations, found that 87 percent of real estate agents participated in racial steering, opting to show their clients homes only in neighborhoods where most of the neighbors were of their same race. Agents also refused to work with Black buyers and showed Black and Latino buyers fewer homes than white buyers.

"I could not believe what I was hearing. Well after the Civil Rights movement, after Covid, after George Floyd, you would think society isn't still thinking this way. But in 2024, they still are."

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/31/realestate/race-home-buying-raven-baxter.html?