[quote=FlyerInHi][quote=AN] This is not about opaqueness. It’s about overt and transparent discrimination. I’m pretty sure if a private company say, we take race into consideration when we’re hiring, they will be sued until they will no longer do that.[/quote]

You have a lot of faith in the private sector,

In the private sector, nobody would say that anything is based on race.. but they would said things like “team player”, “deals better with customers”, “better communications skills”, etc…

In the public sector, the rules and procedures are more likely to be written down and documented. That’s why the UC admits more on pure academic merit then the Ivy league.

Notice that I never defended race based admissions. All I’m saying is that merit can be more than academic record.[/quote]You have it all wrong. I’m not talking about faith. I’m talking about overt discrimination. Last I check, I don’t see any company that came out and state they take race into consideration when hiring.

I’m not against have other criterias for admission. What I’m against is the overt discrimination that deadzone seems to be OK with, which lead me to ask “Can we use the same logic in the private sector?”. I wasn’t responding to you, I was responding to deadzone.