Opportunity v. Diversity
We’ve got the Fourteenth Amendment, the Civil Rights Act, the Equal Employment Opportunity Act, and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act.
Now, take a look at this article from The National Law Journal. It’s written by Edgardo Ramos, who’s not just a lawyer, but the chairman of Day, Berry & Howard’s Diversity and Sensitivity Committee. In the article, Ramos offers this advice to law firms:
Firms must require department chairs to consider their diversity goals when hiring lateral candidates.
If diversity is a function of race, then it seems as if Ramos is advising law firms to ignore Title VII, which “prohibits employment discrimination based on race.”
When you take account of everyone’s race, when you make it your goal to alter the racial composition of your workforce, then you’re into racial discrimination. There’s no way around it when that’s your goal.