This by Sun-Timesman Leonard Fleming alleges a “glass ceiling” on blacks’ wages but neither alleges nor demonstrates racial discrimination, only that blacks earn less.  This is news?  This is built on the assumption that low wages indicate discrimination?  They do?

This by Francine Knowles, same noosepaper, on the other hand, is full of good advice for blacks, hispanics, and gays looking for work, including fudging on one’s name on the resume:

“I am not telling anyone to change their name or do anything that’s going to make them uncomfortable to get a job. But if you have been out of work for three to six months or longer, and you haven’t been getting calls for interviews, and you have an easily identifiable ethnic name, you might want to consider abbreviating your name or using a name you’re commonly called,” she said. “If your name is Marquita, Mary. See where that leads you. From my experience, it has made a dramatic difference in the number of interviews requested,” she said.

And gays need not self-incriminate with gratuitious reference to “my partner,” for instance.  It’s none of the employer’s business that you have one, she says.

I buy it.  In the 50s I met a St. Ignatius High-Chicago alum whose name change, for gosh sakes, from obviously Polish to nondescript Anglo was worth $10G a year, he said, selling steel.  His children would thank him, and if they didn’t, too bad for them.