To be young, gifted, and black.
“When quizzed about their lack of diversity, CEOs often say they can’t find qualified graduates of color. I find this hard to believe considering all the colleges that are churning out graduates.”
Can they read (either print or cursive)? Speak? Can they send a coherent email?
I’ve seen these “graduates” and work with them; in a “white” grammar school thirty years ago they’d be at about a fourth-grade level in reading, writing, and arithmetic.
This article is an example of people living in different worlds.
To many of us, minorities have never had it better in America. We look at policies such as affirmative action, and think to ourselves, that a black woman veteran, for example, can write her own ticket. We perceive that due to affirmative action, it will be difficult to discipline or terminate a member of a recognized minority group.
This writer lives in a world in which white men are perceived to have so many advantages in life, and that things are handed to them on a silver platter. Many of us would take issue with his premise.