How so?
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t02.htm
Which is why using a black man for the picture isn't particularly smart. It's offensive because it's true, and nearly any conclusion you can draw from it is going to piss off someone.
Something about that sentence isn't right.
A Western study shows that black people with a criminal history are half as likely to get a return call than whites with similar history in low level positions. Further, even for blacks without a criminal history,this same study shows that they are about half as likely to get a return call than whites with the same background.
This doesn't even include the roughly 15% of the black population currently being held in U.S. prisons who may or may not eventually be released and find that no one will hire them.
Source: UC Irvine Criminology, Law & Society C7 taught by Professor Seron Spring 2010.