I used my white privilege to get an insurance license. I was told right when I walked in the door I would be given an easier test due to me being white.
Alternate hypothesis, honesty. Too many employers got too many non-white workers that looked good on paper. Even if only 1:5 are cheats, when an employer is hiring what they are really asking themselves is "how to I minimize risk." In fact you can transform all business decisions into that form but it works directly well when hiring.
A 20% risk of hiring the wrong person is very high. Over 50% of non-whites I've known that were my peers growing up, most of them gave no consideration towards honesty and viewed something as wrong only if you are liable to get caught.
You are going to get judged as the bottom 20 percentile of your race, and that's fair because it's unfair to ask employers to completely ignore risk. Having a degree can be a differentiator, but if 20% of people of your race with that degree are still dishonest then that's who you're judged as.
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