Posted on 08/05/2015 6:12:18 AM PDT by artichokegrower
When the world’s leading technology firms reported their workforce demographics, the details were uncomfortable, but not surprising: Apple, Google, Facebook and other Silicon Valley giants are dominated by men, many of them white.
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Kinda like our immigration process is broken.
Tech is plenty diverse with people of color from Asia.
Why can't blacks look at the total picture? It's about US jobs for US citizens. Then, QUALIFIED blacks would get their fair share of jobs.
Are they upset the NBA is so black?
So, they’re expecting corporate America to take up the slack from poor school performance and poor school methods as applied.
Not enough people of color? Hello. China, India and Pakistan.
They need to press their children to strive harder. Asian kids don't have any problems breaking into the tech industry.
Go to skool and stay there. Dont grow up to be a thug.
No company will willingly pass on talent especially in California.
If you can’t do it on merit, pull out the race card.
Tech companies don’t care what you look like or where you are from if you can perform.
They don’t need to carry unfire-able drones just to show they are with the PC program. Most likely, if they go along on this, these drones will wind up in HR and other admin positions.
I interviewed many black college graduate candidates. They ALL invariably were coached in group form as to the correct answers, demeanor and interview conduct. The prep was good enough to get by an HR person - but not near good enough to get by the engineers they’d have to end up working with.
We kept them (everyone) in interviews with every technical group all day long. Interview training can’t stand up to that.
Why are these so-called black leaders not tough on black families for breaking up and spewing out illegitimate and illiterate kids? Why don’t these so-called black leaders get tough on the kids for not speaking English?
How about just employing the most qualified experienced candidate for the job..
I sure wouldn’t want to have someone work for me just because they were black but who couldn’t do as good as good a job as the white candidates I had to reject for their color..
Not every black doctor is a Ben Carson..
Every thing is broke. How it worked fore 200 years before Obama is a mystery.
“Apple, Google, Facebook and other Silicon Valley giants are dominated by men, many of them white.”
Gasp!!!
Gee, you mean the affirmative action graduates can’t cut it when they get to the real world. What a surprise.
Hire more Mexicans and Asians?
Tell the bro’s in da ‘hood to start “acting white” by doing their homework, majoring in engineering or computer science, skipping Midnight Basketball to study math on Khan Academy, etc, etc.
Tell the NAACP & the MSM to start promoting Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams and Alan West rather than Sharpton, Jackson, Beyonce and Oprah.
Make every Black child pass an extensive exam on the lives & work of George Washington Carver & Thomas Sowell before they can play on a high school sports team.
Why are these so-called black leaders not tough on black families for breaking up and spewing out illegitimate and illiterate kids? Why don’t these so-called black leaders get tough on the kids for not speaking English?
There’s no money in that.
Cough up some hard working, talented highly skilled black folk and I’m sure they will be hired.
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