Posted on 04/19/2005 9:10:00 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Pepsi, Vowing Diversity Isn't Just Image Polish, Seeks Inclusive Culture
By CHAD TERHUNE Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL April 19, 2005; Page B1
"Steve Reinemund says he was stunned when he got an e-mail late one night back in 2001, shortly after becoming PepsiCo's chairman and CEO. He had spent the evening with a small group of African-American employees at Pepsi headquarters in Purchase, N.Y. At the end, he had stood on some patio steps to give a few closing remarks. In the e-mail, one of the attendees wrote that the scene reminded her of a plantation owner lecturing his slaves from on high.
Mr. Reinemund was troubled she felt that way -- and grateful she shared her concerns. Ever since, he tries to avoid speaking from a podium."
Link, please.
Unless she herself was a slave on a plantation, then she ehrself wasn't reminded of a freakin' thing, except what she saw once in a storybook.
They can always quit. No one will stop them.
How about if he stands in front of the Lincoln Memorial?
I wish more people, when charged with racism at moments such as this one, would simply refuse to answer such "charges" as being too ridiculous to merit a reply.
I doubt that a plantation owner stood on any steps and talked. They had their overseers to do their bidding. Just as the democrat party has their paid overseers doing their bidding and passing it on to their bought voters.
hahahaha!!!! this is totally hilarious.
-In the e-mail, one of the attendees wrote that the scene reminded her of a plantation owner lecturing his slaves from on high.-
Said attendee is way too self-absorbed. There should be a mandatory class for that.
This is silly. MOST speakers stand on some type raised platform, stage, etc.
hmmm, I wonder if her memories of plantation owners lecturing slaves from on high were innate memories passed along in her DNA from her great great great grand-ma-ma, or rather if the scene reminded her of a scene from "Roots" or some other epic drama she might have viewed as a child. Or perhaps it called to mind the great Reverened Je$$e Ja¢k$on lecturing his serfs from his plantation porch reminding them to vote democrat to keep the plantation strong, and she subconsciously equated that with the plantation owner.
I wonder if she'd feel that way at a speech by Jesse Jackson?
If only we were a society of REAL men and not sensitive twerps. The person who expressed her concerns to Mr. Reinemund truly is a horse's a-s who should have, at the very least, been politely ignored.
I see some people have discovered the fountain of youth.
In this story, there is a person who is unabashedly racist. Three guesses who it is.
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As a Polish-American, I strongly object to this phrase.
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