[jazusamo]

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.

[El Cid]

Most of the Semiconductor companies are made up of Minorities: Ethnic Chinese, Taiwanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Filipino, Indian, Paki, Bangladeshi, etc. Unfortunately it seems like most those of European extraction have chosen to avoid the Engineering disciplines - I suppose because the schoolwork is hard, and the financial rewards may be slow in coming (everyone wants to be a lawyer, or an investment banker whiz ... or just to slack off in College). Merit is what gets you hired in Silicon Valley, nothing else.
The software/programming companies might be predominantly descendants of the European Japheth line - I wouldn't know - but not so the Semiconductor Engineering (the 'real' Silicon Valley) companies.

[lowbridge]

“Jackson’s strategy borrows from the traditional civil rights era playbook of shaming companies to prod them into transformation”

Or he is borrowing from the traditional mafia playbook of extorting them out of some money.

[amnestynone]

They are beig bitten by the left wing hand that they feed. Good!

[PapaBear3625]

Of Computer Science and Computer Engineering PhD's awarded in 2009 and 2010, just 1.3% went to blacks.

Last year, University of Michigan graduated their first black female Computer Science PhD. She complained of lack of role models.

[bikerman]

They will hire as soon as they can find some blacks who can read cursive.

[martin_fierro]

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There are areas in the "open-minded" Bay Area that have never met a Conservative.

[Vendome]

We have the United Nations working at all these places.

I’d tell him his schtick is over, “Ave Nice Day”.

[Amagi]

Is Silicon Valley less diverse than the National Basketball Association?
Is the median NBA salary less of a living wage than the median Silicon Valley salary?
Ditto the National Football League.

[greedo]

HHS dumping Verizon for Hewlett-Packard to host HealthCare.gov

As the new infrastructure/host enabler of healthcare.gov,
hp richly deserves everything rev. jackson does to them.

It is like Daimler-Benz building aircraft engines for the Nazis.

screw hp