Posted on 03/13/2018 2:05:58 PM PDT by blam
Uber Chief Brand Officer Bozoma Saint John has called on white men to ‘make noise’ about diversity in the workplace. CNN reports that Uber chief brand officer Bozoma Saint John has called on white men to encourage diversity in the workplace during a panel at the South by Southwest film festival. “I want white men to look around in their office and say, ‘Oh look, there’s a lot of white men here. Let’s change this,'” said Saint John. She claims that it’s not the responsibility of minorities to encourage diversity: “Why do I — as the black woman — have to fix that? There’s 50 of you, there’s one of me. Ya’ll fix it. … Everybody else needs to make the noise — I want white men to make the noise,” said Saint John.
Saint John was hired to Uber in June shortly after the company faced a number of scandals, including criticism for lack of diversity amongst its executives. Uber’s former CEO Travis Kalanick resigned from the company in June, the same month that Saint John joined the company. Uber released a diversity report in March 2017 that many felt reflected poorly on the company as it showed that the company had no technical leaders who are black or Hispanic. Across non-technical leadership roles, 3.7 percent of leaders were black, and 1.2 percent were Hispanic.
Saint John criticised Silicon Vallitsor it’s lack of diversity saying “The number of African Americans in Silicon Valley is dismal.” Saint John has worked at a number of Silicon Valley companies including Apple Music where she held a marketing leadership position, “It’s not up to one company — it’s up to the entire industry to make sure that we are moving the conversation forward.
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>>Grace Jones and Ru Paul had a test-tube baby. Born male.
Now I know how Dennis Miller feels.
Never seen an uber driver with a sedan, let alone a Mercedes.
Maybe some white guy should tell this racist black broad that people should be hired based on their ability, NOT their skin color, sex, or national origin.
You over-valued her.
I just “made a noise” about “diversity”: It’s called flatulence.
If I ‘make noise about diversity’, I’ll get FIRED for saying that it’s killing our business.
So no thanks, nothing for me to gain by taking her advice.
9 Feb 2017: CampaignLiveUK: Bozoma Saint John
Apple Music and iTunes
One look at Saint John’s Twitter profile shows that she is no ordinary marketing executive. In fact, she is just about as rock star marketer as they come...
“Boz”, as she is known, scooped the 2016 Billboard Women in Music Executive of the Year and was introduced by Lady Gaga, who called her one of the “coolest people that I know”. As if that is not starry endorsement enough, among those congratulating her on the award was one Hillary Rodham Clinton. Saint John had supported her run for the White House by helping to set up an interview between Clinton and Mary J Blige, which aired on Apple Music
https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/power-100-2016-bozoma-saint-john-apple-music-itunes/1423284
21 Oct 2016: Tweet: Bozoma Saint John: Black on black on black at The White House for the President & First Lady’s Love & Happiness party!!
https://twitter.com/badassboz/status/789595844030922752
11 Jan 2017: Instagram: badassbozMr. President and Mrs. Obama,
The day this photo was taken, my name rang out in introduction... and with that call, the spirit of my grandmother, for whom I’m named, rose proudly in the White House.... because she had been called too. Those who have walked this walk before us are so proud to see us standing in this space because your call to action did not just boldly proclaim “yes we can”... it proved that we are. And I am. And she is. Our ancestors’ legacy will forever leave a mark where you’ve been. So for that, and so much more... thank you Barack Hussein Obama and Michelle LaVaughn Robinson. Here’s to a legacy of significance...
https://www.instagram.com/p/BPHHKBWFREg/?hl=en
Maybe white people shouldn’t use Uber anymore so that their customers are diverse.
“One woman, mostly Carabean blacks.”
Thanks-———somehow that surprises me.
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That's not a scandal. That's a feature, and a value-add.
Diversity is death. I will always fight it, and am indoctrinating my children to see it for what it is: A method of disenfranchising them in the country their ancestors created, built, and made great.
Actually, we don’t win on sewrial killings.
Black people actually excel at that, too, and it is estimated that they’d excel even more if they had better long term planning ability.
Because a serial killer caught on his first day is a “spree killer”, or similar.
I have a nephew who is one in the Annapolis area.
That’s what I say.
Who cares what color they are - can they do the job well?
That is all I care about.
Why do these stupid companies always respond to “criticism” over lack of diversity by running out and hiring the biggest moron minority they can find?
Can’t they just tell them to piss off?
“Spree” killing is just lowing the bar on “serial” killing so that there can be more diversity on list. I reject such pandering by race.
Thanks blam. Uber wants everyone off the road, apart from those who want to become skidmarks under an autonomous killer robot.
Affirmative action with other preferred groups, and the demise of the white, Christian, heterosexual male.
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