...Yet, at any company where I've worked, a qualified candidate for a professional position in, say, accounting--who also happens to be black--has HR falling al

...Yet, at any company where I've worked, a qualified candidate for a professional position in, say, accounting--who also happens to be black--has HR falling all over themselves in excitement. (The accountant I'm thinking of developed kind of a dark sense of humor in response.) Obsessing over the arbitrary characteristics that originally were used in discrimination doesn't fix it, and never will.