It doesn't matter if you're black or white...Does It?

As the nation mourns the passing of civil rights hero Rosa Parks, a new study by economist Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Princeton professor Cornel West provides a sobering assessment of the barriers still facing people of color in the American workplace. As Hewlett tells The Christian Science Monitor,the face of prejudice has changed, but is still very real: "People wore it on their sleeve and enshrined it in law.


Today, it's much more subtle, but it's pervasive. Whether it's a tone of voice or hairstyle or accent, the cumulative impact can be brutal and can derail a career."
98 - Percentage of Fortune 500 CEOs who are white.
95 - Percentage of Fortune 500 top earners who are white.
40 - Percentage of minority women who feel excluded and constrained by the need to "act white."
More than a third - Portion of minority men who feel similarly limited by"style compliance."
One quarter - Portion of businesswomen who worry they're perceived as"affirmative action" employees.
Nearly a third - Portion of minority female executives who are concerned that their speaking style labels them as lacking leadership potential.
I found this article to be quite interesting and somewhat true. I've worked in both the Corporate and Non-Profit Sector. I often get "you are so articulate" people are shocked when they realize I have a brain and I don't listen to rap music, or any other stereotype that they may have heard or believe about people of different hues...I have found that I have to work harder to be noticed or even to get rid of the stereotypes. Prejudice is still around and we have to work together to make it disappear.

Read the full article :http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1031/p13s01-wmgn.html

On a lighter note: I stumbled across this website that make fun of all of this http://www.blackpeopleloveus.com/