Posted on 02/22/2018 12:20:29 PM PST by bkopto
Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner (R) cares about diversity. In fact, he cares about it so much that he drank your mom’s favorite chocolate milk concoction at a corporate event honoring Black History Month.
The supposed-metaphor happened after Hyatt Hotels’ vice president and global chief diversity officer Tyronne Stoudemire presented a bottle of Hershey’s chocolate syrup and said that it represents “diversity” through “women, people of color, people with disabilities, the aging population, and generation X, Y, and Z.” Standing on stage right next to him, Gov. Rauner held a glass of milk as Stoudemire poured chocolate syrup right into it.
“It’s not that organizations are not diverse, but when you look at most organizations, diversity sits, what? At the bottom of the organization,” Stoudemire said, CBS reports. “You don’t get inclusion until you stir it up. I want you to stir it up, governor. Stir it up.”
Gov. Rauner went on to do just that, offering to drink the chocolate milk live on stage.
“You’ll drink it? You’ll be proud to,” Stoudemire quipped, after which Gov. Rauner took a sizable gulp, gave a thumbs up, and unsolicitedly shouted, “It’s really, really good… Diversity!”
If I prefer white milk, am I racist?
I like chocolate milk.
Chocolate Milk and Shades of Skin Colors
Goal
To understand why people have different skin colors.
Time
5–10 minutes
Materials
one glass of white milk, a spoon, a package of powdered chocolate drink mix
Procedure
State that one way people differ is in their skin colors. Ask if anyone knows why people have different skin colors.
Pour a glass of milk and hold it up for the class to see. Ask if anyone in the room has skin as white as the milk in the glass. (The answer should be, “No,” unless there is an albino in the class.)
Inform students that this is because all of us have something in our skin called “melanin,” which is a black substance.
Hold up the package of chocolate powder. Ask students to pretend the chocolate is melanin. Make the following statements as you add chocolate to the glass:
White people have a small amount of melanin in their skin. (Put a little chocolate in the glass and stir.)
Brown people, such as those from India, have more melanin in their skin. (Put more chocolate in the glass and stir.)
Darker people, such as many African Americans, have even more melanin in their skin. (Put more chocolate in and stir.)
Ask students why we have different amounts of melanin in our skin. Inform then that melanin is like a curtain in our skin—it protects our skin from the sun’s rays. We need some sun to help our bodies make and use vitamins, but too much sun will burn our skin. What color we are depends on our ancestry. White people originated in western European parts of the world, where it was colder; that area did not have much bright sunlight. So, people in that area developed skin with less melanin to take advantage of the smaller amount of available sunlight.
People who lived, let’s say, in India, where it is hot and had a lot of sunlight, developed skin with more melanin to protect them from too much sun. And people who lived in Africa, where it is very hot, developed skin with even more melanin to protect them from the sun’s hot rays.
Ask students which skin color burns faster in the summer sun. The answer is that people with lighter skin burn more and faster than people with darker skin.
Discussion
Does the color of people’s skin make them good or bad, more intelligent or less intelligent, pretty or ugly?
What does the color of a person’s skin tell you about the person?
https://extension.psu.edu/more-diversity-activities-for-youth-and-adults
WHAT DOES THE COLOR OF A PERSON’S SKIN TELL YOU ABUT THE PERSON?
So why is it so important and what is important?
“I drink your milkshake”
True, but chocolate milk has the same affect on me as the beans had on them.
LOL. Straight from the spigot.
Give him a break, soon he’s going to jail with all of the other former Illinois governors.
Hershey’s chocolate syrup is disgusting, especially mixed with milk. On the once every 3 years or so occasion when I drink cholocate milk, I prefer Swiss.
YOUR mom......[jk]
I sense a joke in there.....”IDOC, the only state Dept of Corrections with a Governor’s mansion.....”
Seven feet of stupid.
Is this the new liberal equivalent for sacramental wine?
Do you have to use U-Bet to show that you are not an anti-semite?
If he survives the primary (there is a possibility Jeanne Ives will beat him) he will lose in the general election. He has pissed off conservatives in Illinois sooooo badly, what with his making Illinois a sanctuary state and supporting abortion — at taxpayer expense — at any time during the pregnancy, even after nine months.
A la Fuzzy Zoeller!
Adding chocolate to White milk renders the milk no longer White.
Heinlein’s “Crazy Years”. We’re livin’ in them.
I drink cola. It is much darker brown than chocolate milk.
Does that make me more diverse than this idiot? I’m not sure how this all works?
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