Sep 15, 2026 · 8 min · 5 segments
Disparate impact may sound boring. It isn't. It's the rule the Supreme Court established in 1971 to catch discrimination that doesn't announce itself. Fifty-four years later, the EEOC, acting on…
Imani GandyHost
It just wouldn't let them out of the Labor Department, the lowest-paying department at the plant.
Before Title VII of the Civil Rights Act banned workplace discrimination, Duke Power loudly refused to promote people.
Now, Duke Power never sent a memo saying, keep the black guys in the boiler room.
They looked at what the policy actually did to people, not just what it claimed to do on paper.
And Congress liked this approach so much, they wrote it straight into the statute.
It's been in Title VII for 35 years now, older than some of the lawyers currently trying to kill it.
It just wouldn't let them out of the Labor Department, the lowest-paying department at the plant.
Before Title VII of the Civil Rights Act banned workplace discrimination, Duke Power loudly refused to promote people.
Now, Duke Power never sent a memo saying, keep the black guys in the boiler room.
They looked at what the policy actually did to people, not just what it claimed to do on paper.
And Congress liked this approach so much, they wrote it straight into the statute.
It's been in Title VII for 35 years now, older than some of the lawyers currently trying to kill it.
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