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Jesse Jackson to take on Silicon Valley’s lack of diversity

Title should have been:

Jesse Jackson to shake down Silicon Valley's lack of his version of diversity.

1 posted on 03/18/2014 4:22:38 PM PDT by jazusamo
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Silicon Valley has tons of Asians and Indians. They’re “minorities,” aren’t they?

Mr. Jackson might take a look at the lack of math skills in the minority he champions.

I wonder what Jesse Jackson Jr.’s SAT scores were? Of course, we’ll never know.


2 posted on 03/18/2014 4:25:27 PM PDT by Steely Tom (How do you feel about robbing Peter's robot?)
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Could it be it’s because blacks don’t bother to complete their education?

Maybe Jackson is on to something... He only needs to focus.


3 posted on 03/18/2014 4:26:06 PM PDT by babygene ( .)
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How many top programmers, engineers, geneticists, MBAs and patent attorneys does South Side of Chicago produce? I’m thinking a few, but not many. Jesse needs to look to cleaning up his side of the street. More black kids doing more homework in harder subjects. Maybe if he tried that we actually would achieve his version of “diversity.”


4 posted on 03/18/2014 4:26:23 PM PDT by Gluteus Maximus
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Right up your alley ping!


5 posted on 03/18/2014 4:26:35 PM PDT by whinecountry (Semper Ubi Sub Ubi)
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His bank account must be getting low.


6 posted on 03/18/2014 4:26:55 PM PDT by doc1019
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Blacks, Latinos are either being discriminated or they don’t have sufficient numbers of qualified applicants.


7 posted on 03/18/2014 4:27:24 PM PDT by umgud (2A can't survive dem majorities)
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Jackson’s strategy borrows from the traditional civil rights era playbook of shaming companies to prod them into transformation.

Wrong. He prods them into donating to his organization.

8 posted on 03/18/2014 4:28:04 PM PDT by aimhigh ( Self defense - a human right.)
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If this shakedown artist was truly concerned about diversity, he’d go after the NBA and the NFL.


9 posted on 03/18/2014 4:28:35 PM PDT by rickomatic
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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.

Cool.

Will Incomprehensible One provide his own translator? 'Cause I don't think anyone understands a word he says.

10 posted on 03/18/2014 4:28:38 PM PDT by skeeter
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It’s been a few years now, guess ol’ Jesse’s due for another shakedown..........


11 posted on 03/18/2014 4:29:34 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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When I was in the US Army “affirmative action” was an emerging factor, but my boss (a warrant officer) said he was happy to hire a black, but they had to be qualified by test scores and training.

He had not found one yet.


13 posted on 03/18/2014 4:30:17 PM PDT by truth_seeker (Nissan)
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This is insane. Silicon Valley types might spew the liberal dogma, but when it comes to hiring they'll hire and fund whomever has the most potential to bring them profit. These tech companies aren't going to hire or not hire anyone because of race.

If there are blacks with great ideas out there who can't get funding (doubtful) why don't they go to rich, successful blacks and plead their case?

14 posted on 03/18/2014 4:30:28 PM PDT by grania
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I worked for several high tech companies. We didn’t hire uneducated victims. The Jesse faction has done nothing but keep these people on the plantation and only marginally employable. Look in the mirror Jesse. That’s where the problem is.


16 posted on 03/18/2014 4:30:55 PM PDT by NewHampshireDuo
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That area of the US is very diverse.

http://blog.sfgate.com/crime/2014/03/18/man-convicted-of-biting-parents-over-cat-visit/


18 posted on 03/18/2014 4:31:26 PM PDT by Bogie
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He’s an extortionist.


19 posted on 03/18/2014 4:34:05 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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Mr. Jak-Sun will find out rapidly that Asians and Indians have no regrets over discriminating against Africans and Latin Americans.

They play for keeps when it comes to their own people as anyone who’s ever tried to get hired in the more mind numbing groups at Intel, AMD, HP, etc.

And it ain’t like Oakland is all that far away. Physically at least. Mentally....light years


20 posted on 03/18/2014 4:35:01 PM PDT by Regulator
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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,

Hiring them, Jesse, to do...what?

22 posted on 03/18/2014 4:36:43 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media -- IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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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.


24 posted on 03/18/2014 4:37:43 PM PDT by ansel12 ((Libertarianism offers the transitory concepts and dialogue to move from conservatism, to liberalism)
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Black Hope White Hope by John Pekkanen


25 posted on 03/18/2014 4:38:42 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Albert Einstein: The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits)
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Rich liberal elite white man shakedown... Jackson will need a wheel barrel to haul the cash away...


27 posted on 03/18/2014 4:40:39 PM PDT by GOPJ ("Fighter pilot manoeuvers"? One of the SaudiÂ’s we trained in Texas years ago?)
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