Recession and Diversity

http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2009/03/17/how-the-recession-is-affecting-racial-diversity-in-the-workplace/

This is an interesting article from CNN I found on diversity and how the recession is affecting it.  It was showing that during the recession some companies were laying off people of color first.  "In good economic times, people know they are supposed to support diversity and will tend to hire a minority candidate to get affirmative action points. But when times are tough, people tend to look out for their own group and isolate outsiders, and that's when discrimination can begin to rear its ugly head." This was a quote from the article and I could unfortunately see how this could be true.  What do you guys think?  Do you think this just so happens to be the theme in this one company or do you think it is intentional?  I've gotta hope not but subconsciously I feel as though it certainly could be true.


Alec