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Billionaire Mark Cuban was corrected about the consideration of race and sex in hiring by the commissioner of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) on Monday. Cuban stated in a Sunday tweet that he has “never hired anyone based exclusively on race, gender, religion,” but that “race and gender can be part of the equation.” Andrea Lucas, commissioner of the EEOC, responded that any employment decisions based on race or sex would violate the Civil Rights Act of 1964. “Unfortunately you’re dead wrong on black-letter Title VII law. As a general rule, race/sex can’t even be a ‘motivatin…

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