N.A.A.C.P. to Advertisers: Diversity Begins at Home

NY Times ^ | 3/27/09 | Stuart Elliott

[pissant]

The next shoe is dropping in an effort to end what is described as decades of persistent and systemic bias at the agencies that create, buy and place television commercials and other forms of media advertising.

The N.A.A.C.P. is calling on the nation’s 25 biggest advertisers — on TV and in other media — to require that their agencies use racially diverse teams of employees in creative and account-management posts. The first letter in the initiative is to be sent to Procter & Gamble, the No. 1 advertiser in the United States with ad spending last year, according to the Nielsen Company, of $2.8 billion.

Among the other major advertisers that are being sent letters, according to the N.A.A.C.P., are AT&T, Bank of America, Berkshire Hathaway, Ford Motor, General Electric, General Motors, GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson & Johnson, Time Warner, Toyota Motor, Unilever and Verizon Communications.

[pissant]

Ah, it's good to see that the leftist, race hustling poverty pimps at the National Association Against Conservative People is still in bizness.

Thought for sure they would declare victory by getting the marxist quisling elected. I guess a half white guy doesn't cut the mustard.

[Gaffer]

I don’t know about what everyone else is seeing almost everywhere on TV in ads, shows, news shows, everywhere...there are an awful lot of ‘diversity’ faces showing - somuchso, you’d think the ‘majority’ whites were actually minorities....talk about pandering to America’s new diversity PreZer0dent image.....

[martian622]

They should practice what they preach and offer some choice NAACP jobs to some more diverse skin color groups. Yeah....right.....

[Mikey_1962]

How diverse is the staff of the NAACP?

How many Native Americans or Gay Inuits does it employ?

[pissant]

Hell, how many mexicans? Arabs? Jews?

[WOSG]

DIVERSITY = RACISM.
Judge people by their character not their skin color.

[WOSG]

How many white Christian conservatives does it employ? That segment is at least 25% of the US population, so they should have at least 25% of that on their staff or they are discriminating against that segment of the population.

[Mikey_1962]

I used to get this argument at the University of Michigan (usually from the wrong end of a bullhorn):
“We need more diversity here!”

My answers was always:
Right! Lets start with the basketball program, it does not look diverse at all!

[nobama08]

And why aren’t there more “minorities” (whites, Mexicans, Jews, Asians) in the NBA anf NFL???

[oh8eleven]

to require that their agencies use racially diverse teams
Require? Require? WTF are you to require? Feckin' communists.

[Cheetahcat]

The NAACP is still relevant A worthless Black Supremacist bunch of freeloaders on the Government tit sucking White money to propagate hate and Racial imbalance.

[bill1952]

Hell, how many White people?

[yankeedame]

...to require that their agencies use racially diverse teams of employees in creative and account-management posts

Devil take the best and most capable. diversity is the key!
(Odd though, doesn't the NAACP think approved minorities could make it without set-asides?).

[backhoe]

 

[pissant]

Perfect!!

[DGHoodini]

Racial blackmail.

[Pilated]

I am tired of 12% dictating that they must be 50% in my face at all times for my entire life. I like separate groups working together not co-mingling.

[Soothesayer]

It’s never enough, a liberal lives to whine. That is their whole reason for existing.

[jmax]

That bunch of COLORED PEOPLE are nothing but extortionists.....

[SuziQ]

Bump pfor Sat. reading