who is responsible for their passion aiding or ending it all to discuss that i'm now joined by sean rochester author all the black tags the cost of being black in america mr rochester it's very good to talk to you thank you very much for giving us this opportunity. it is a wonderful thing to be on the platform thank you very much for having me and for engaging in this really important conversation now in your book you cited a number of studies of discrimination in the job market all of which are pretty distressing but the one that blew me away completely was all the fact manes why sounding names versus black sounding names who would know that there's such a distinction and he talked more about this yeah so the university of chicago decision really groundwork breaking our research right on this and they sent out resumes to over 5000 different employers across private public sector large companies medium size small businesses they were trying to get a sense of the amount of discrimination in the labor market was really important in no ways in the resumes that they sent out it would be the same

welcome back to worlds apart because sean rochester the author all in black tax the cost of being black in america mr rochester we are on the eve of the presidential elections and the racial issue in the united states has always been a political issue and it's and no secret you're anyone dead. certain political groups consider black voters as that old electorate i'm not going to name any names but do you think that party has delivered on the promises that it made to the black community. no. when you look at you know it's it's been 153 years since emancipation when you look at it's been 400 years right since black people have been in the u.s. and extracting their labor for the construction of the country and then you think that black people on about 2 percent of u.s. wealth and a disproportionately high is category almost everything that's negative i just don't say that that i don't see how anybody any working to find that is as a when well the reason i'm asking about this is because there is also an increasing our body of creech says speech that just the problem of fly this structural d

and who's responsible for are perpetuating or ending it all to discuss that i'm now joined by sean rochester author all of the black tax the cost of being black in america it's very good to talk to you think you very much for giving us this opportunity. it is a wonderful thing to be on the platform thank you very much for having me and for engaging in this really important conversation now in your book you cited a number of studies of discrimination in the job market all of which are pretty distressing but they wanted me away completely was already a fact names why sounding names versus black sounding names who would know that there's such a distinction and he talked more about this yeah so the university of chicago decision really groundwork breaking our research right on this and they sent out resumes to over 5000 different employers across private public sector large companies medium size small businesses they were trying to get a sense of the amount of discrimination in the labor market what's really important to know is in the resumes that they sent out it would be the same resumes they

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