{"id":36146,"date":"2011-08-18T13:46:40","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T21:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=36146"},"modified":"2011-08-18T14:06:11","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T22:06:11","slug":"how-much-can-be-blamed-on-discrimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=36146","title":{"rendered":"How Much Can Be Blamed On Discrimination?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dennis Prager talks to <A HREF=\"http:\/\/econfaculty.gmu.edu\/wew\/\">Walter Williams<\/a>, Professor of Economics at George Mason University. His new book is <em><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.hooverpress.org\/productdetails.cfm?PC=1522\">Race and Economics: How Much Can Be Blamed on Discrimination?<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>If a white and a black are sent out for the same job with the same resume, how come blacks are not hired as often?<\/p>\n<p>Walter Williams, a black economist, says: &#8220;It&#8217;s utter nonsense to think that a black with a high school diploma and a white with a high school are equally diploma because all the data show that a black graduating today with a high school diploma has the reading, writing and computating skills of a white student in seventh or eighth grade. The employer knows this. The same goes for bachelor degrees.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dennis: &#8220;Was that [stat about high school] true a hundred years ago?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Walter: &#8220;No. There were few blacks graduating from high school, but those that did were as competent as whites graduating from high school.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Too much is blamed on racial discrimination explaining the problems black Americans face when there are other factors such as fraudulent high school diplomas or market entry restrictions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Affirmative action has been a negative [for blacks]. Affirmative action increases the costs of firing a worker because you might get charged with racial discrimination. Anything that increases the cost of firing a person increases the cost of hiring a person.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dennis Prager talks to Walter Williams, Professor of Economics at George Mason University. His new book is Race and Economics: How Much Can Be Blamed on Discrimination? If a white and a black are sent out for the same job &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=36146\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,4,36],"tags":[29761,21119,15295,27537,27538,27539],"class_list":["post-36146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blacks","category-dennis-prager","category-race","tag-dennis-prager","tag-george-mason-university","tag-high-school-diploma","tag-high-school-diplomas","tag-race-and-economics","tag-utter-nonsense"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36150,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36146\/revisions\/36150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}