I read that when that Egyptian guy became ceo of Ford.. he looked at the vice presidents and 15 of 16 were white men. He said Ford is too white and too male, fired 8 of the white men vps, replacing them with minorities and women. Pretty sad to work your way up near the top in your career then get forced out of the company because you are the wrong skin color.
I understand he did a heck of a job...of running Ford into the ground.
He will or did get his big bonus and Ford teeters near bankfuptcy. As for me, I have never bought Fords, perfering the better made Japanese models for the huge price cars cost.
It is the story of our lives. i wonder if there will be another generation willing to step aside to make amends for the sins of our fathers. Probably not. I have been wondering what it is that makes those netroots so angry. I have concluded that it is probably this. They are mostly old white men, and I had an ex in that category. I suppose that they feel they have been stepped on and bypassed and divorced to their disadvantage by all the social engineering that has gone on. My ex died recently. His rage seemed irrational to me. And the rabid democratic activism does not really address its cause.
He did more than that. He made a blanket statement that no white males would be getting raises or promotions. He made the comment behind closed doors where he didn't think it would get out. Wrong. I was working at a Wingcast in San Diego (Ford/Qualcomm) when he made the statement. We heard about it within 15 minutes of the utterance. The immediate reaction was "Screw him". There was an immediate revolt and work slow down. The white males stopped putting in extra effort. They just worked the standard hours and made no extra effort to correct the errors being made by those with the preferred skin color.
Jack Nasser was handed his walking papers shortly after his stupid utterance. Wingcast folded the shop in June 2002, so I wasn't around to see what Bill Ford did to try to fix the damage done by Nasser. Wingcast was the ultimate exercise in "diversity". It was populated with H1B labor from around the world. It was also an abject failure. Too many highly compensated H1Bs with a terrible work ethic. Too many who were creative resume writers who couldn't deliver on the bottom line.