[Donkey Odious]

I worked for the City of Houston Public Works department for a couple of years. My immediate supervisor was a portly white woman, the section head was a black woman and the department head was a black woman. Out of a crew of 12-14 people, I was one of two “token” white men. And while I was there, the city elected a lesbian mayor.

I enjoyed the work itself and might still be there were it not for the politics and the overt favoritism that permeated every aspect of the job.

[Tanniker Smith]

The old white boys at Coopers & Lybrand (now PricewaterhouseCoopers) were quite good at promoting hard-working women. Trouble is that they had their unspoken quota and they had some less-stellar managers as well. If you were a hard-working woman working for the former, you had a good career ahead of you. If you worked for the latter, you were a rival and a threat and your life would become a living hell.

By the way, for all the years I worked there (over a decade), I had many managers, project leaders and group leaders, and I worked for one white guy the entire time. Two if you count the time I was loaned out to another department for a few weeks.

[FrankR]

The truth is, if any manager runs his business based on leveling the “diversity stage” instead of getting the job done and making profits, the business is probably going to fail anyway. Ask Detroit.

[Iron Munro]

If diversity for the sake of having diversity is such a great idea why don’t we have more diversity in the NFL and NBA?

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

White Males know that “diversity” is code for “Whitey need not apply” and is therefore racist BS.