by Jonathan Clayton

Created on: October 25, 2008   Last Updated: June 27, 2009

Reverse discrimination is a problem that for the most part, fly's under the radar, here in America!

Reverse discrimination is a topic that most often dosen't get the attention it deserves. If it's even spoken about at all! The reason I can speak of this problem with in-depth knowledge, is because of a personal experience which happened in my own life, a few years ago. Myself and another young man decided to start a new business in the Communication's industry. We pooled our resources, all of our asset's, and even went as far as taking out second mortgage's on our homes, to finance this endeavor.

We started out with just the two of us. But by the end of the first year, we had six Field Technicians, and two individual's that generated sale's for our small company. We were able to secure two major contracts, with two separate Communication firm's. This allowed us to expand dramatically. Hire several more employee's, and acquire larger, more lucrative, long term contracts.

At this point, we felt we were doing pretty well. We were able to double the size of our company and the number of employee's, in less than a year! Our company name was becoming fairly well known in the Midwest, where we were operating at the time, and our reputation for quality work as well as fair pricing was beginning to pay off!

I was in charge of personnel because of my technical background and having managed multiple people, locations, and situation's in my own thirty year career, in the Communication's Industry. At this time we had a total of ten hourly and two salaried employee's. This did not include my partner, or myself. Several times through the first few years, I had hired minority employee's. But on every single occasion, for one reason or another, they just didn't work out. The main reason's were because of low production, or missing too much time from work.

Be that as it may. We wound up with no minority employee's in our small company. After about two and a half years, we managed to secure a very large contract ,in the city of Omaha Nebraska. Now, you have to understand. At this point in the growth of our company, our Operational Capital Output was tremendous! So in order to be able to purchase the equipment and the umbrella insurance policies that were required to obtain the signed contract. We needed to secure a Small Business loan of apprx. $250.000 dollars.

Both my partner and myself were quite literally, on" Cloud Nine" because we knew that our line of business credit

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