Black Hope White Hope by John Pekkanen
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
No doubt about it.
Hiring them, Jesse, to do...what?
“Silicon Valley has tons of Asians and Indians. They’re “minorities,” aren’t they?”
You’d think, now wouldn’t you?
Especially since tech companies LOVE to abuse the H1B visa program in order to insource cheap labor that they can’t conveniently outsource.
Silicon Valley isn’t racist - they’d love to pay you minimum wage or less to work regardless of your race.
All companies that support the politics, should adopt the quotas.
California is almost 50% Hispanic and black, yet that isn’t reflected in Silicon Valley management, ownership, board members, and tech experts, design, etc.
This percentage should be implemented immediately. I already own all the tech that I will need for a few years, so they should go full speed ahead to end their racism.
Some can only figure to the last penny on the monthly SNAP!
Rich liberal elite white man shakedown... Jackson will need a wheel barrel to haul the cash away...
That says it all about Jackson, I’ve read that before and believe it.
Not enough homies designing VLSI logic.
LOL - good one Steely.
Two years ago your comment would have been considered racist. Today it's considered 'the truth'. We've come a long way...
I knew a few very smart blacks during my decades in engineering, but they were a very few. That bell curve does have an upper bound after all.
Je$$e’$ right. There is no diversity in Silicon Valley. No Conservatives.
Sadly, you’re probably right. It’d be nice if they’d tell him to take a hike.
rev. jesse,
Thanks for pointing this out. Why do blacks fail so much in this area?
SillyCon valley hires based on ability. The workforce is heavily minority. If one minority is not well represented, perhaps Jesse could better spend his time encouraging its kids to complete math Science computers and engineering courses ( instead, or along with, sports games and certainly instead of “ ethnic studies” and “ community organizing” krap.
So we must assume that he will he be going around the country telling young blacks to develop self-discipline, avoid gangs and drugs, set goals, stay in school and study hard; He will add that when they reach the higher grades, they should seek out courses in math and the sciences. And he will emphasize that such a course of action is not "acting white" but the road to a sucessful career in the computer industry and the best way to racially integrate Silicon Valley.
Don't hold your breath.
I once worked for a federal contractor. They’d advertise jobs that required a doctorate in some biomedical research area, and they’d be inundated with résumés from Asian and Indian researchers but never hired anybody. They were looking for a black or Hispanic applicant, preferably female, so that this would make them look better in the contracting process. Unfortunately not many blacks or Hispanics tend to go for a PhD in biotech fields. There are a few, but those guys are in high demand and they know it, so they can command a higher salary. The fact is that not too many white women have doctorates in these areas either.
Maybe the Southern Poverty Law Center can check into it and see if they're a bunch of haters. (If the NBA gives big bucks to FreeRepublic we'll forgive them and call off the SPLC dogs...)
So he wants them to hire coders who don’t know what they’re doing?
Yeah...that’s a plan. He ought to have his buddy zero use those people for the Obamacare website.
The silicon valley must be ordered to supply innovative brilliance to those that lack it. That’ll do the trick.
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