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Jesse Jackson Calls On Tech's 'Unicorns' To Join Apple, Google And Release Diversity Reports
ibtimes.com ^ | SEPTEMBER 8, 2015 | Salvador Rodriguez

Posted on 09/09/2015 9:15:45 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey

SAN FRANCISCO -- The herd of $1 billion-plus startups -- the so-called "unicorns" -- is growing. But the workforces at these oversized startups are raising a question now familiar to Silicon Valley: do these mythical creatures only come white and male?

A year ago, Rev. Jesse Jackson drew attention to Silicon Valley’s lack of diversity and spurred Google, Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo and many others to start issuing “diversity reports” to hold themselves accountable. But now he has a new target: the unicorns, which are delaying their IPOs and, in a sense, public scrutiny, as they look to establish markets around the globe.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: afroturf; apple; astroturf; blackkk; blackliesmatter; blacklivesmatter; bluster; california; facebook; google; jackson; jessejackson; redistribution; reparations; sanfrancisco; shakedown; siliconvalley; twitter; unicorns; whiteprivilege; yahoo
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1 posted on 09/09/2015 9:15:45 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey
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To: MeshugeMikey

Unicorns? Who thought that one up?


2 posted on 09/09/2015 9:18:32 AM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Jesse needs to release a report that shows the has any positive impact on the status quo. There is no evidence that shows diversity improves a ything.


3 posted on 09/09/2015 9:19:21 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob (With Trump & Cruz, America can't lose!)
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Yo, Jesse, you racist pimp, only non-profit bureaucracies funded by taxpayers can afford to hire the illiterate dead beats that come from your 'hood. Capitalist entities must hire people that (gasp!) have more than two functioning IQ points and will actually Work!

Stupid entitlement pimp.

4 posted on 09/09/2015 9:20:41 AM PDT by LouAvul (Freedom without responsibility is anarchy.)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Jackson crawls out of the sewer again to cause trouble (what else?). Sorry Jesse but you can’t create engineers, technicians and administrators by race baiting.

It gets down to one word Jesse: EDUCATION.

Try working on that angle Jesse. Racist Maggot.


5 posted on 09/09/2015 9:22:30 AM PDT by EagleUSA (Liberalism removes the significance of everything.)
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Silicon Valley’s lack of diversity

"You think maybe there's a reason for that?"

(As Bob Dylan said to an aspiring singer-songwriter who complained that nobody wanted to hire him to perform.)

(In "Don't Look Back")

6 posted on 09/09/2015 9:23:03 AM PDT by MUDDOG
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Uh-Oh!

Jesse has found a new industry to shakedown with his racist blackmail scam.


7 posted on 09/09/2015 9:23:06 AM PDT by Iron Munro (CITY: A liberal run holding pen for useless headcount.)
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Jesse, these startups don’t give a crap about skin color. They only care about grey matter.


8 posted on 09/09/2015 9:24:02 AM PDT by Flick Lives (One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast. -- Heinlein)
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To: LouAvul

Man, why caint I be da programma on dat technologay playa! I be dowlodand mad stuff brah!


9 posted on 09/09/2015 9:24:21 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Bush [the 90s rock band] for POTUS 2016!!!)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

And jesse agonizes over why we don’t make ebonics a certified language.


10 posted on 09/09/2015 9:25:59 AM PDT by LouAvul (Freedom without responsibility is anarchy.)
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As soon as Jesse issues a report on all the bastard children he fathered.


11 posted on 09/09/2015 9:27:17 AM PDT by LeonardFMason (LanceyHoward would AGREE)
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Shakedown time
12 posted on 09/09/2015 9:27:35 AM PDT by Obadiah (Mr. Obama, the time for honoring yourself will soon be at an end.)
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To: MeshugeMikey

I don’t see blacks or women as naturally attracted to techie activities as white men or some people from other cultures such as Japan or India. That’s not a criticism. I’m a techie and the last thing I want is for my wife to also be one.


13 posted on 09/09/2015 9:28:40 AM PDT by cymbeline
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This is too rich. For decades, the black community has frowned on youth going into the sciences like engineering, math and physics. It was too “white” they said. Now, Jesse is wanting diversity reports.

Its shake down time!!


14 posted on 09/09/2015 9:29:05 AM PDT by TMA62 (Al Sharpton - The North Korea of race relations)
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To: MeshugeMikey
Beware of THE SPITTER

Black Hope White Hope by John Pekkanen

http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/Weisberg%20Subject%20Index%20Files/J%20Disk/Jackson%20Jesse/Item%2018.pdf


15 posted on 09/09/2015 9:30:37 AM PDT by Iron Munro (CITY: A liberal run holding pen for useless headcount.)
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Hey Jackmail, when they use ebonics as a computer language they’ll give you a call. Go get a job racist loser.

Pray America is waking


16 posted on 09/09/2015 9:31:38 AM PDT by bray (Trump and Cruz to the White House)
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They need to start letting in all those minorities from all over the country who are pursuing computer science careers- oops, I mean the ‘gibmedats’ who wants some cash payouts for ‘lack of diversity punishment.


17 posted on 09/09/2015 9:33:31 AM PDT by Mr. K (If it is HilLIARy -vs- Jeb! then I am writing-in Palin/Cruz)
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SYNTHENTIC DIVERSITY..... a creation of Jesse Jacksome Inc.

the product will die on roll out!!


18 posted on 09/09/2015 9:35:34 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: MeshugeMikey

The shakedown artist is hard at work.


19 posted on 09/09/2015 9:35:40 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
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To: Iron Munro

Once a childish bitter foul little racist...always a childish bitter foul little racist?

Jesse CAINT find a job himself..


20 posted on 09/09/2015 9:36:57 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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