Numerous studies have indicated that people with Black-sounding names are less likely to get called back for a job interview than applicants with traditionally white-sounding names. It’s one of the many ways white people have an advantage in the workforce and in society in general, and it’s one of the many reasons the DEI programs they abhor so much were ever necessary in the first place.
In Detroit, a Black man has filed an employment discrimination lawsuit against a hotel alleging the establishment only offered him a job interview after he changed the name on his resume.
Meet Dwight Jackson—or as the Shinola Hotel in Detroit reportedly knew him when he was called for an interview: “John Jebrowski.”
According to CNN, Jackson’s lawsuit alleges that he was denied a job under his own name in “violation of Michigan Elliott Larsen Civil Rights Act,” but he applied to Shinola Hotel …