You have to be careful about saying what you would do if you are a human resources manager. It's not the HR manager who's making this rule, but generally the government. If they don't hire a certain amount of minorities, they could get in trouble and be shut down. The only way you can not hire a qualified minority is if you have a small company and hiring the minority (a handicapped person, for instance) would cost the company money (such as building ramps and elevators to help the handicapped person around). Life isn't all fun and games, when you run a company. Even if you run it, unless you're company has under 200 employees you HAVE to hire a certain amount of blacks, women, handicapped and/or aboriginals, so the government doesn't come knocking on your door.