Comments on: Minorities make small gains in science jobs

Hispanics catch up to blacks in science and technology, but both groups remain underrepresented in those fields, study says.

[Bill Dautrive]

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A large proportion on the minority communities have been neglected, since forever, and their communities forced to rot. Key among that neglect, is a nation wide problem: education.

Education is being neglected across the board in America, but it is worse in poor communities, which are mainly non-white. How can someone from that situation improve themselves, when the glaring lack of quality education is denied?

Personally, I really don't care what percentage of whom is in any profession. That is something that is irrelevant. But the cause of statistics in reports like this is not.

I think the idea of affirmative action and quotas, while good intentioned is actually making things worse for everyone, and is more then slightly insulting. It may help overcome some peoples prejidices, but it frequently causes under-qualified people to be hired, and who does that help? No one, not even the underqualified person. It also hurts the qualified minority applicant, as he/she is often assumed to have been hired because of skin color or sexual organs.

No matter what your goal is. Better qualified people, or better representation, the answer is the same: better education for all. Somehow there is never money for this endevor, yet we can find a few hundred billion dollars to fight an illegal war, started to make a few rich men richer. Funny how we can never find money for the important things. Imagine what kinds of reforms in education could have happened.

Our country will never get out of its funk without serious attention to education.

[winmanjr]

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I was planning a responese to the story but found it had already been written.

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Aren't Asian's Minorities too?

In the article about this study, Asians once again have been left out of the discussion and focus has been given surprisingly to the "majority" groups amount the so-called "minorities". I downloaded the report for the commission's website and in that study are statistics about Asian's that the author has conveniently excluded in the article. Here's the result : while Asian's represents only 4% fo the labor force, they represent 10-11% of the STEM jobs. Asians face the same discrimination if not more, than Hispanics and African Americans. The low percentage of the latter minority groups is thus not due to discrimination. Using the same logic that the author purpots, we can claim that Asians are is an under-represented minority in professional sports, entertainmnet media, as well as professional music.