• If they’re going to X me, I’d like to at least get in the door first.
• Job-seeker Johnny R. Williams • Describ­ing the trou­ble he’s had land­ing a job inter­view – some­thing he thinks is hap­pen­ing because he’s black, not because his resume sucks. As a result, he’s made an effort to scrub his resume of any­thing that iden­ti­fies him as a black man – that mem­ber­ship to the African-American busi­ness stu­dents asso­ci­a­tion? Deleted. Black male col­lege grad­u­ates face an unem­ploy­ment rate nearly twice as high as white grads of a sim­i­lar edu­ca­tion level, and many experts think black-sounding names may be a turn-off for poten­tial employ­ers. source

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