Bloomberg revealed this a couple of days ago. You missed it, as I did, because the mainstream media chose not to report it. It’s a separate issue, but gee, why do you think that would be? Because it isn’t news? Because the public doesn’t care if major corporations deliberately discriminated against the largest racial group in the nation? Because this is smoking gun evidence of woke-driven, illegal racial bias in the workplace supported by a political party that the news media is dedicated to supporting? Because the strategy of race-based threats, riots, violence, lies and extortion works?
Nah, it couldn’t be for any of those reasons. Maybe it’s because Biden’s dog bit its 11th victim: THAT made it into news headlines, but not this. But I digress…
Let me plug the Washington Free Beacon, a conservative news source so derided that it seldom makes news aggregator sites with its headlines, which did report the Bloomberg revelations. It wrote in part,
Only 6 percent of new S&P 100 jobs went to white applicants in the year after George Floyd’s death, according to an analysis by Bloomberg News, a testament to the pervasiveness of legally tenuous diversity programs throughout corporate America.
The analysis, based on data reported to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, shows that S&P 100 companies added 323,094 new jobs between 2020 and 2021. Of that total, 302,570 of them—94 percent of the total increase—went to “people of color,” defined as blacks, Asians, and Hispanics, the analysis found. Together, those groups make up just 40 percent of the U.S population.
The disparities raise new questions about the role of race in corporate hiring, which is already under scrutiny following the Supreme Court’s ban on affirmative action in college admissions. With many companies and law firms now facing lawsuits over their diversity programs, the numbers suggest that race-conscious decision-making has gone beyond flashy fellowships or supplier diversity initiatives; in 2020, it appears to have permeated routine employment decisions.
“These numbers are extraordinarily stark,” said Dan Morenoff, the executive director of the American Civil Rights Project, which litigates reverse discrimination cases. “It’s very hard to imagine this could be legally defensible.”
Morenoff added that “disparate impact,” or disparities in outcomes, can be a basis for liability even without proof of intentional discrimination….
Meanwhile, Bloomberg thought its findings were just wonderful. “The latest findings show that when under pressure to hire and promote qualified diverse talent, organizations find a way to do it,” it says, after revealing that companies undeniably discriminated against whites (and presumably men, though those stats weren’t included in Bloomberg’s report.) “For a brief moment in 2020, much of corporate America united around a common goal: to address the stark racial imbalances in their workplaces,” Bloomberg intones. And to do it, qualified Americans who had never done anything to harm, discriminate or undermine the fortunes of minorities in the United States, were rejected from jobs they could do well, and perhaps better than those where hired in their stead, based on the color of their skin.
That’s what Bloomberg applauds.
This poses a challenge for conservatives and Republicans: attacking this institutionalized discrimination in corporate America—talk about “systemic racism”!—will naturally be framed as white supremacy’s revenge. Nevertheless, this issue needs to be placed front and center as point of ethics and law, and a line of defense against the DEI fad’s perversion of a merit-based society.
And I assume that lawyers are preparing class action lawsuits as I write this. Good.
In 2021, because a Marxist organization threatened the U.S. with riots and often violent protests based on the non-race-based death of an overdosing lifetime hood under the knee of a bad cop, the Standard and Poor’s one hundred biggest U.S. companies hired more applicants who fell in the category of “Other”—8% of those hired—than whites (6%). The rest of the jobs went to Hispanics (40%), blacks (23%), and Asians (22%). That’s unethical, unjust, illegal and indefensible.
Res ipsa loquitur.
Ethics Alarms 
It think the initial reaction to the prima facia data is correct, that discrimination is at play.
What is harder to see, is what mitigating factors there might be. For instance, 94% of new jobs went to minorities. In my field, hiring anybody is difficult. Thus, companies may be pulling in different candidates partially out of necessity. Bloomberg said that the S&P 100 companies employ 9 Million people in aggregate. Most jobs are filled by poaching from competitors; employees pit employers against each other and shuffle back and forth, while the overall number of jobs ordinarily remains the same.
Adding 3% net new jobs (300,000) from mostly “underrepresented” groups, may not be as suspicious as at first glance, but only if it genuinely reflected the pool of available personnel (which at very-low unemployment may not necessarily reflect the population at large, or the existing workforce). If everyone that applies is getting a job, and only 6% of applicants are white, then no discrimination would be occurring.
The catch – the makeup of the applicant pool is unavailable!
Bloomberg’s methodology section states that the size and demographics of the recruitment pool is not reported on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s EEO-1 form. Thus, is not possible to prove or disprove discrimination or “disparate impact” on applicants. It will be this lack of hard evidence that will allow companies to skirt around anti-discrimination laws, as it appears they are doing, while hiding behind plausible deniability.
I was also wondering if part of this hiring was meant to, first, boost company profiles to reach racial quotas (if they had minorities underrepresented), and, second, fill positions that were in the newly made DEI departments. The Bloomberg article suggests the companies are still disproportionately white after all this minority hiring. It also mentions how, three years later, DEI initiatives are no longer see so favorably, so if we look at layoffs here soon, will most of them be minority? And this suggests to me that perhaps a good chunk of job gains under the Biden administration were diversity hires for DEI departments that will vanish once the pressure to have DEI initiatives vanish.
I’m going to speculate here and think that as this was part of the time during the pandemic, not many new jobs were being created outside of the surge of DEI positions. These almost went universally to POC.
Kind of ironic that Hispanics led the field with 40 percent, and blacks only snagged 23 percent. This reminds me of the American black complaint about all the Caribbean and South American black guys playing in Major League Baseball. American blacks do not consider Caribbean and South American black guys black. Or as Joe Biden would probably say, “Those Spic guys ain’t black!” I bet the Congressional Black Caucus is pissed about this. I bet the Hispanics led the field because they’ll do almost any job and send most of their earnings back home to the shithole from whence they’ve come.
46% of whites, including 43% of white men and 50% of white women voted for Dems in 2018 midterm election. In 2022 midterm election the numbers went to 41% – 38% – 44%.
The issue is not what Dems (or left) do; it’s that American voters are too stupid to see through Dems’ BS and evil. The Dems have been masters are ensuring that their messaging appeal to just over 50% of the voting population at any given election, even though their long term plans and objectives are always obvious to anyone with more than 2 functioning brain cells.
Just ask yourself this: would Obama have won in 2008 if he had said during the campaign what he said or what he’d actually do as president? Would the Blue Wave of 2018 have materialized if Dems were saying what they’re saying now (about trans, DEI, etc.).
I’m old enough to remember the Dems and MSM dismissing, as crazy fringe right wing conspiracy theories, as recently as 2018, predictions that they’ll do what that have done since then (pushing sex/gender crap, blatant anti-white/anti-American, toppling non-confederate statutes, crapping on founding fathers, etc.)
Ron, I saw something recently to the effect of, “When people say who they are, believe them.”