Ever read this book?
Posted on 09/18/2021 1:07:14 PM PDT by Zap Brannigan
I am a partner at one of the top 25 national law firms. I have been practicing law for more than 20 years. The dream of Martin Luther King is rapidly being extinguished by the new cadre of woke culture warriors. Never in my career have I observed such unabashed discrimination against white males as I have seen in the past 12-18 months.
We represent many major life sciences companies, corporations whose names would be familiar to all of you. Our clients have become militant in regulating the skin color and gender of the attorneys who are staffed on their matters. They all require us to provide race/gender breakdowns of the attorneys at the Firm.
Recently, one of my female partners led a three person team to a pitch meeting with a prospective client with whom we already have a relationship. She took two highly-qualified white male partners to accompany her to the meeting. After the meeting she was pulled aside by in-house counsel and chastised for bringing the two white males to the meeting. She was informed it was "tone deaf" and could not happen again.
Another major life sciences client has given us actual quotas. Including that 40% of the staff time on their matters be by women and 10% by underrepresented minorities. If the quotas are not met we will lose all work from them. This particular client has also insisted we provide gender/race breakdowns for attorneys staffed on their matters who work in Europe, even though providing such data is illegal according to the laws in many EU countries. Amazingly, this client has also offered to "assist" my firm in deciding who we should internally promote.
The vast majority of my partners are on the East Coast and are hardcore liberals. So the foregoing does not conceptually bother them other than figuring out how to comply with the mandates. When it was pointed out to the white female partner who took the two white males to the client meeting that she has two sons, the notion that they could be subject to the same kind of discrimination was lost on her.
In any event, just wanted to vent and give some insight into what is happening in my industry. I expect quotas and overt gender and racial discrimination against white males to become more and more normalized. Indeed, when commercials come on TV, do any of you also play the game "find the white guy"?
Or a reliable car in your garage, a cell phone in your pocket, a computer on your desk or the means for them to talk to each other.
I could say something about reliable printers too but that would be going too far. ;o)
The problem is you don’t have a diverse set of employees. They are all liberal.
I also suspect you don’t have any evangelic or born again Christians. Somebody needs to sue your firm for religious discrimination.
Ever read this book?
Ping
King (with help from speechwriters) wrote a pretty speech. But it was PR propaganda, calculated to resonate with the white middle and upper-middle classes. It did not necessarily reflect King's actual views.
Conservatives love to drape themselves as the true followers of King. But I'm old enough to remember North Carolina GOP Senator Jesse Helms's and Ronald Reagan's opposition to to making King's birthday a holiday in 1983. So too conservative radio hosts like Bob Grant. And with good reasons. King isn't the saint modern conservatives like to paint him as.
About 8 yrs ago, (before I retired), our company did their annual anti-discrimination certification. They showed a video series about the different types of situations where discrimination occurs. Out of the dozen scenarios, 11 were white males picking on other employees under their control, with malicious intent. The one outlier was a black male who just made an honest mistake to a disabled subordinate.
This was in a large corporation. During this training, my blood was boiling and sincerely felt like walking out the room. I have no idea what others felt. But it was absolutely propaganda to put white males in a negative light. Sickening.
And what another poster said, it’s been going on for a long time. White males ARE the Jews of the 1930s and early 40s. Pray to God it don’t end the same way.
Overt discrimination against white males was always the plan.
The equality crap was just that.
Deport Dimon
Didn’t Ronald Reagan sign the bill that created the MLK holiday?
Reagan eventually caved and signed the bill.
The end result of this is that competent, hard working white males will just start their own companies. And succeed despite the obstacles. The ones who will suffer long term is the token hires in incompetent firms that can’t keep up.
Close to 30 years I was told I would not be getting a promotion because they had government contracts and there were too many white male managers.
I shortly left the company for a better offer elsewhere.
Bingo!
“She took two highly-qualified white male partners to accompany her to the meeting. After the meeting she was pulled aside by in-house counsel and chastised for bringing the two white males to the meeting. She was informed it was “tone deaf” and could not happen again.”
I’m a lawyer as well. My advice to that lady would be tell in-house counsel something that ends in “and the horse you rode in on.”
And you are supporting it by staying at that law firm. I left a large, woke, DoD contractor and now work at a small company where I do not have to play the game “find the white guy”. I suggest you do the same.
Happening everywhere. Look at commercials. Every white guy is an idiot.
I see the white guy on tv quite a lot. He is either the clueless dolt or the mean bigot. Other than that, they don't generally exist.
And that is true in every single industry - but too many guys lack initiative and just want to keep collecting their paycheck.
If all whites are racists, all blacks are victims, then all muslims are terrorists.
Nice to see a vanity not posted to engage in vitriolic argument. You got stuff off your chest and let it go.
Being in my mid 70’s I grew up, white middle class, following Dr. King as I was coming of age during the Civil Rights movement. I will never forget watching Dr. Kings “I Have a Dream” speech. I was mesmerized and saying out loud “Right On Man!” quite often.
The speech was electrifying and I bet he wouldn’t recognize where we landed these days.
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