The textbook includes a large portion of the text in the area of employment discrimination. You may also have studied similar issues in other university classes such as management and human resources classes. Perhaps you have training sessions at work related to the topic. Some people argue we are "beyond the era of workplace discrimination," The election of a black president is cited as a post-racial world. Likewise, some commentators suggest that is not the case and that discrimination arises in different contexts than it did ten or twenty years ago. The question to discuss in the spirit of a free, civilized, intellectual exchange is: Does the level of scrutiny, the amount of time, the quality of the information and the materials dedicated to such training and education seem to be appropriate and effective for today's workforce and workplaces?