As validated by EEO-1s and EEO-4s, Nebraska's employers are not and have never been particularly diverse or receptive to AA/EEO/ADA or the Johnny-come-lately update of DEI. As validated by the public sector EEO-4 report of 2019 for Nebraska, for all "New Hire Employment" at city, county, and state public sector jobs, forty-six-(46) people were hired into the top level of Officials, Administrators, Senior Managers, etc., and all 46 were White; no Blacks, no Hispanics, no Asians, no Native Americans, etc. https://www.eeoc.gov/equal-employment-opportunity-commission-state-and-local-government-information-eeo-4-2019-19

Nebraska's private sector EEO-1 reports
reveal the same perpetual mediocrity.

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The overwhelming majority of public sector and private sector employers in Nebraska abandoned use of “objective,” work-related selection assessment tools that validate a candidate's proficiency to actually perform the essential job functions in compliance with the established job standards, such as the Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection (criterion-related, content, construct); and replaced it with the “subjective” use of consultant-driven, behavior-and-emotion-based assessments and unabridged non-minority rater-bias; and transferred “accountability” for recruitment and selection to third-party recruiters and online filtering tools that collect such as LinkedIn.com, Zipcruiter, Indeed.com, Robert Half, etc.

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In Nebraska, White people hold 92% to 97% of all public sector jobs that pay over $70,000

As validated by EEO-4 reports compiled in 2007, 2009, and again in 2011 by the EEOC, even though 97% of all state, county and local government jobs in Nebraska that pay over $70,000 a year are held by White people, on November 4, 2008, thanks to Ward Connerly (watch video interview below), White people in Nebraska passed ballot Initiative 424,which eliminated the application of Affirmative Action for all state, county, and local government jobs in Nebraska. 

For the 2008 elections, Connerly headed a campaign which he called "Super Tuesday for Equal Rights." It was directed at dismantling affirmative action programs in five different states via ballot measures. In three of the states, Connerly's initiatives failed to make it onto the ballot. In Colorado, voters rejected Amendment 46 (or the Colorado Civil Rights Initiative) by a very slim margin.

HOWEVER, consistent with the state's extremely well-documented history of racism as validated throughout this editorial, voters in Nebraska were the only ones to approve a new anti-affirmative action measure, called Initiative 424. While similar measures were voted on in other states, voters in Nebraska were the ONLY ones to approve such a measure in 2008!

White people clearly want to hold the remaining 3% of all state, county and local government jobs in Nebraska that pay over $70,000.

Simply put:

1. Even White women have a better chance of breaking into the “Glass Ceiling” in the private sector than trying to get a job in "senior management" in Nebraska's State Government.

2. White people in "authority" in Nebraska, especially White men, have absolutely no problem hiring themselves at levels nearly 20% greater than their actual representation in state population demographics, but for some reason they are perpetually unable or unwilling to hire Black people, other minorities, and women at levels that mirror their actual demographics in Nebraska's population. Is Pete Ricketts a racist, which includes the systematic lily-White cronyism that envelopes every aspect of his life?  If it walks like a duck . . .

As reported by the University of Nebraska, the enrolled student population at University of Nebraska-Lincoln, both undergraduate and graduate, is: 72.8% White, 8.55% Hispanic or Latino, 3.77% Asian, 3.48% Two or More Races, 2.87% Black or African American, 0.25% American Indian or Alaska Native, and 0.0584% Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders. Students enrolled at University of Nebraska-Lincoln in full-time Undergraduate programs are most commonly: White Female (38.4%) White Male (37.7%) Hispanic or Latino Female (4.79%) Students enrolled in full-time Graduate programs are most commonly: White Female (28.6%) White Male (25.7%) Hispanic or Latino Female (2.86%)
In Nebraska, over 50% of Black males fail to graduate from high school; therefore, a greater percentage of Black men are incarcerated and unemployed than in college. In Nebraska, the primary reason for Nebraska's White controlled public and private colleges and universities to "recruit Black males (i.e.,niggers)" is NOT as students for S.T.E.M. (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) programs, but to perpetually populate the "slave labor" scholarship recruitment of Black male students to carry a football or shoot a basketball; otherwise, Black males are targeted for perpetual incarceration and unemployment.
As established and sustained by Nebraska's "elite," politically powerful and affluent White people, primarily White men, who dictate all aspects of public and private education, "they" can't or won't enroll and graduate Black men at levels comparable to other demographics!