Originally Posted by KatzPajamas

It is difficult for me to watch young men and women who have worked their way up from the bottom, get a college degree with high GPA and lots of student loans, only to lose that first job to an ethnic person with lower GPA and whose ethnicity got them a free education...It's just a hard pill to swallow for them. I do not begrudge the free education at all. I just wonder how the equal opportunity employer knows just how far each of the people have come or who has worked harder for it, just by looking at the color of their skin.