damn technology is racisss...
Posted on 03/18/2014 4:22:38 PM PDT by jazusamo
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Rev. Jesse Jackson plans to lead a delegation to the Hewlett Packard annual shareholder meeting on Wednesday to bring attention to Silicon Valley’s poor record of including blacks and Latinos in hiring, board appointments and startup funding.
Jackson’s strategy borrows from the traditional civil rights era playbook of shaming companies to prod them into transformation. Now he is bringing it to the age of social media and a booming tech industry known for its disruptive innovation.
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Airplanes disappearing out of the skies!?!
That is what I was thinking. I do remember, some years ago, seeing on TV, a bold CEO asked JJ where he got his money, and JJ kind of slithered off, like the snake he is.
Buy him a ticket on “Air Malaysia” and jet his butt out of there.
I know smart blacks - one is my boss and one is the boss of our entire department in a Fortune 500 company.
Black are 13% of us - last I knew - so maybe they can achieve that representation in SV ...IF they would study and work for it.
Jessie Jackson should go pound sand.
We are all so painfully reminded on a daily basis that “ elections have consequences”. So do electives. Students who elect engineering and science usual get jobs a lot faster than those electing ethnic studies and community organizing. It’s pretty much all up to the individual whether to become employable or not. So far I haven’t seen much that Jesse does to help young people elect the right choices.
Exactly. This is how he does his shakedown in the movie industry and then have black actors ad actress contribute to his rainbow coalition. What a scam!
Yea but he keepin' it real.
It's kind of sick, but white liberal elites 'get off' on their guilt... it's kinda creepy.
Jesse, a person needs to be EDUCATED to work in the Silicon Valley or any other industry that requires brains and social skills like talking clearly in English, the ability to write in cohesive sentences and paragraphs, and the ability manage anger.
Not something most ghetto rats know anything about.
I’ll hazard a guess that Silicon Valley isn’t exactly in dire need of ‘aspiring rap artists’.
But I could be wrong.
Jessie is so far off on this one it is not even funny.
Point 1: As a middle-aged white guy I am in a serious minority when I am in silicon Valley. I don’t mind because when I am there I am among my own kind.
Point 2: As the evaluator of technical talent for 29 years this hits one of my pet peeves i.e. black society actively discourages otherwise qualified kids into carriers other than engineering. As a mentor to high school engineering interns I have had parents actually state that “ they would be disappointed” if there child became an engineer rather than a lawyer.
So Jessie BACK OFF !!!!!
From Almost Home, by David Kirp:
Many homeowners discovered after the fire that they carried woefully inadequate coverage -- one policyholders' group named itself the Unexpectedly Underinsured Allstate Policyholders -- but by drawing on the force of their unified, well-connected voice, as well as on the support of the state's populist insurance commissioner, they wrung an astonishing concession from their insurers. Policies were upgraded retroactively, boosting the amount a homeowner could recover by an average of $200,000.These paragraphs describe one aspect of the dynamics of post Oakland-Berkeley firestorm of 1991.As Deirdre English learned, the lessons of the disembodied spirit taught by the old Japanese Zen masters translated with remarkable ease into the Zen of insurance settlements. "Just when the fire experience is encouraging you to detach from worldly possessions, purify your intentions, and all that," she wrote, "the realpolitik of your insurance policy rises up to inflame pride, greed, guilt, and every other unenlightened emotion you can think of.
"Experience the guilt," she counseled her fellow refugees -- but still "fight for your price."
How many white folks in Jagmo’s organization?
The only “computer experts” and “devious programmers” that are african american are in the movies or on tv. Actually a rarity in the IT biz.
yeah well, I see their point, I just looked in the back of my old computer, wires are a pink,red, yellow, orange.etc .no black wires visible. ya know it`s hard.........lektrons & shit.
Look Jesse, it’s a meritocracy, not a coolness contest
All the homies have already been hired.....by the TSA.
The things ya see when ya aint got a bath salts zombie.
Amen, but Jesse only understands cool and money, not merit. lol
damn technology is racisss...
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