[AmishDude]

Oddly enough, many of them still see the Negro in the room as ‘non-existent’ or invisible, so they talked like I wasn’t even in the room. I hear everything they say. When Nakia Shaniquah-Quashiqua fills out an application, they have a field day in the office. Once they get their fill of ghetto and ‘weave’ jokes and ripping you to pieces sight unseen, they usually toss the application, or it gets stuck in the ‘bottom of the pile’.

While I think the article is generally true, this paragraph struck me as BS. In the corporate world, a "Laquisha" indicates you can check off at least two affirmative action boxes.

[Chickensoup]

While I think the article is generally true, this paragraph struck me as BS. In the corporate world, a "Laquisha" indicates you can check off at least two affirmative action boxes.

But no one wants to do that with a forever employee who would be a problem from the get-go.

[Straight Vermonter]

I thought it was odd that she specifically mentioned IBM. As an employee I can tell you they are over the top with thei "diversity" stuff.

[Sam Cree]

"I’ve been behind many a closed door with white corporate America. Oddly enough, many of them still see the Negro in the room as ‘non-existent’ or invisible, so they talked like I wasn’t even in the room."

Could it be that rather than seeing the negro in the room as non-existent, the guys were just accepting him as one of the guys, being colorblind towards him in other words?