Tagged: race played a motivating factor in why i was not hired and/or promoted to Agent
If there was a zero percent rate of promotion for African American Agent Trainees in the New York office from 2000 and 2010, does this not indicate that in a work culture historically defined along racialized lines, the employment practices, policies and procedures of William Morris – individually and/or collectively – create[d] a glaring disparate impact against qualified African Americans from being hired and/or promoted to Agent?
Had William Morris not intentionally maintained its discriminatory employment practices, policies and procedures in violation of Section 1981, Title VII, the NYSHRL & the NYCHRL, there would have been more than zero African American music Agents employed at the company’s various offices in the U.S. and/or I would have been hired as a music Agent at William Morris in 2008 since they filled a position in or around the time I submitted my resume. I would have represented artists who were relatively unknown at that time, but six years later, are now some of the biggest selling artists in urban music today….
An impartial jury should have ultimately decided whether or not my race played a motivating factor in why I was not hired and/or promoted to Agent by William Morris, as well as whether their employment practices created a disparate impact against qualified African Americans and people of color from getting their foot in the door and having an equal opportunity to advance.
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