Ah yes, generalize about groups you never met. 
Way too show that you are better then these strawmen.
Hold up, now. I was generalizing about groups I
have met, for what it's worth. Have had entirely too much interaction with people on pretty much every side of this subject, from the employers to the employees, dissatisfied and otherwise, and there are incredibly and annoyingly consistent patterns coming from folks that complain about AA, particularly when they invoke good ol' reverse racism (fun fact, more than once I've watched --
different, even -- people start loudly ranting about that in the middle of a classroom, among other places). If these are strawmen I've been running into entirely too many wizard of oz characters walking around. 'Course there's exceptions and whatnot, but was describing trends as I'm aware of and (even moreso) have encountered (over and over and goddamn over again; mentioning AA or political correctness or anything of that sort in a room full of north floridians is either one of the quicker ways to cause shit to go down I'm aware of or I have been
incredibly goddamn unlucky).
There could, of course, always be some regional influence going on. I've been in other parts of the country and talked to plenty of folks from 'em, but I've stayed in a particular one and it's definitely one that's going to make some of this shit more prevalent. Will admit I get irritated enough when folks start saying that whole less qualified spiel I start forgetting proper clarification an' crap. S'the frustration of not being able to say anything about it offline (due to it being either social or literal suicide) coming through.
They don't, generally, but individual employers certainly can be prejudiced in... any direction, really. Frumple seems to be buying into the rhetoric that all employers are racist against backs because 
and as such it's much harder to get a job without being favoured specifically for your race.
The hell? If that's what came across I've definitely miscommunicated somewhere. The "rhetoric" (and experience) I buy into is that employers regularly demonstrate racist (and others, of course, but we were talking about something specific) biases (particularly if there's not some kind of check on them), not all of 'em and not always, but regularly and prevalently enough to treat the group as a whole. The against blacks thing is relatively US specific, and not entirely limited to that minority group, either.
The reasons are all over the bloody place, and varies from person to person and region to region, so far as the US goes, but it's common enough (and targeted enough) specific attempts to mitigate it is, y'know, often a pretty good idea. Especially when an organization has identified they've actually had a problem in regards to that sort of thing, which is one of the major reasons AA-style programs start getting implemented so far as I'm aware. Lot of folks are going to have a much easier time than they should of passing over people they probably
shouldn't have without some kind of conscious effort (be it from themselves or their supervisors or whatever) to arrest the inclination.
... and @MSH, the evopsych comment was because you said there was something clear about evolutionary benefits, which is one of the myriad major things commonly wrong with the field. The second you say there's
anything clear about what caused a specific evolutionary trait to develop and maintain is the second you need to stop, go back and go over how evolution works again, and then rethink what you said, because the only way to actually confirm that shit is with a gorram time machine. At least with humans, as of yet,
any supposition of that sort is at least as likely to be wrong as it is right. Y'wanna' make the claim off more standard sorts o' psych paradigms or whatev', go right ahead, just leave the evo bullshit and preferably everything that spawned from it out of it.
