Bert Woodall's Blog – July 2009 Archive (1)

by Bert Woodall



Looking for a job offers a wealth of unpleasantries and irritations but one in particular pops up every time I file an application. Specifically, I am asked to specify an ethnicity. A short list of options is presented from which I am asked to choose exactly one. Of course for me there is really just one option and I take it: I lie.



Invariably I tick the little circle beside “Caucasian” (also sometimes presented as “Caucasian, non-Hispanic”) and just as… Continue