[Bill]

Originally Posted by Frankie the Fink

I (a white guy) was selected for an IT job at the Smithsonian Institute by their CIO (whom I had worked for at another agency) and was waiting for a start date and the CIO called me to tell me that he was over-ruled and told he had to hire a minority (somebody several slots down the "short list" of contenders). So, yeah, it happens all over.

Too bad because it would have been the coolest job I can imagine.

You deserved not to get the job. You are the problem, as evidenced by one of the IBM/Red Hat training slides:



Hope that helps.