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Malik
 

I can see what you mean. I think that what you're trying to do is good, but I'm worried about what it would take in the way of regulation to do it.

Deep color-blindness, as you call it, would require an enormously intrusive system of government inspection. It would require some way of monitoring dozens of factors in the hiring process at many thousands of employers. It could also lead to lots of expensive law suits.

I respect what you're trying to do, but I think it would get out of hand. I'd rather stay with surface oriented color-blindness than create a huge bureaucracy to oversee hiring throughout the economy.

I think there is another problem you're forgetting. In your example the company ends up hiring white people because it relies on the recommendations of its employees. I would guess that using this method doesn't have much impact on the quality of the employees they get. But what if a hiring practice really does help to select good employees even though it unintentionally works against blacks? For example: Suppose a bank prefers to hire people who have worked for other banks. That gets them experienced people, which reduces training costs and is generally better for business. I agree that this could work against blacks, but it is being done for perfectly legitimate business reasons.
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