Refusing to hire people of a certain race, denying promotions to an employee because of his or her race, or paying
members of a particular ethnic group less than others are all examples of illegal race - based discrimination.
What at a distance seemed to be a quasi-public edifice flying only the all - inclusive flag of American nationality turned out, on closer inspection, to be the
clubhouse of a particular ethnic group — the white Anglo - Saxon Protestants, its operation shot through with the premises and expectations of its parental ethnicity.8
In spite of the clearly useful contributions that can be made from this type of governor, a focus on recruitment purely on the basis of professional skills may partly account for the poor representation in
terms of particular ethnic groups and a preponderance of white governors.