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Jesse Jackson Takes on Tech's Lack of Diversity
Scientific Computing/AP ^ | Wed, 03/19/2014 - 9:50am | Jesse Washington and Martha Mendoza

Posted on 03/27/2014 10:01:29 AM PDT by null and void

Edited on 03/27/2014 12:25:29 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

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Maybe this wouldn't be such a problem if studious black kids weren't quite so frequently beaten up for "acting white" by studying and paying attention in class?
1 posted on 03/27/2014 10:01:29 AM PDT by null and void
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Math is notoriously racist and sexist.


2 posted on 03/27/2014 10:03:14 AM PDT by cdcdawg (Be seeing you...)
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If Hewlett-Packard hand any sense they would have had security summarily throw that race baiter out the door and threaten to charge him with trespassing if he again stepped foot on their property...
3 posted on 03/27/2014 10:04:49 AM PDT by apillar
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to bring attention to Silicon Valley's poor record of including blacks and Latinos in hiring...

Maybe, Jesse, it's because THEY DROP OUT before graduating?

OR they major in BASKETBALL AND FOOTBALL if they do?..................

4 posted on 03/27/2014 10:05:19 AM PDT by Red Badger (LIberal is an oxymoron......................)
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When is Je$$e Jack$on going to complain about the lack of diversity in the NFL and NBA?

Not enough white boys there. Thats racist.


5 posted on 03/27/2014 10:05:59 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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perhaps the geniuses at “Level Playing Field Institute “ should get out a news release to inspire students to stop whining and “act white” ?


6 posted on 03/27/2014 10:06:58 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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HP needs to do what Toyota did when Jesse Jackson brought his reparations-road-show to town.

Toyota sat Jackson down in a room, and laid out page after page of private investigator research about how he was shaking down companies for cash payments.

Without a word, Jesse left the room. Empty-handed.


7 posted on 03/27/2014 10:08:52 AM PDT by Old Sarge (TINVOWOOT: There Is No Voting Our Way Out Of This)
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This is right up obamas alley.

maybe MICHELLE can launch an ACT WHITE/GET AHEAD program?


8 posted on 03/27/2014 10:08:53 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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It's widely recognized that the tech industry lacks diversity: About one in 14 tech workers is black or Latino both in Silicon Valley and nationally. Blacks and Hispanics make up 13.1 and 16.9 percent of the U.S. population, respectively, according to the most recent census data.

I'd say that "diversity" is one of those dog whistles that Chris Matthews keeps hearing.

In tech industries, there are plenty of Asians (Asia-Pac and India), but that's the wrong kind of "diversity."

To Jackson, "diversity" only means Black, and grudgingly, Hispanic.

-PJ

9 posted on 03/27/2014 10:09:35 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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“Technology is supposed to be about inclusion, but sadly, patterns of exclusion remains the order of the day,” Jackson wrote in a letter released March 17 to Apple, Twitter, Facebook, Hewlett-Packard, Google and others.

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I wonder whay Jesse doesn’t practice what he preaches? Why didn’t he direct his own son into the high-tech field?

Instead of becoming some low-life politician in prison?


10 posted on 03/27/2014 10:09:56 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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Maybe if idiots like Kanye West weren’t considered the smartest black person on the planet. But really, the cause of all the problems in the black community is lack of fathers. I wonder what the percentage of tech workers know fathers.


11 posted on 03/27/2014 10:10:44 AM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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I thought that he already did shake them down?


12 posted on 03/27/2014 10:11:10 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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this photo is reputed to have been taken at a Democrack Convention

Id be willing to bet it was taken in the Toyota Parking Garage after the meeting...fiasco


13 posted on 03/27/2014 10:12:03 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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What a stupid idiot. There is something called IQ. It is a valid measurement of intelligence. To work in IT you need high intelligence. That’s why so many people from India excel in IT.


14 posted on 03/27/2014 10:12:10 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible traitors. Complicit in the destruction of our country.)
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Maybe HP could institute a new Telecommuting Program? They could call it the WFP or “Work from Prison”


15 posted on 03/27/2014 10:12:14 AM PDT by Autonomous User
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I’m not for any form of affirmative action, but if the rest of us are stuck with it, the liberal IT sector should be too.

On the other hand, the real discrimination is in the funders of IT: the liberal VC world is openly sexist, with gender ratios far outside of women and women’s success in the industry more generally.


16 posted on 03/27/2014 10:12:16 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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Jesse J to Silicon valley: “Show Me the Money!”


17 posted on 03/27/2014 10:12:52 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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It’s not just effort, it’s talent too.


18 posted on 03/27/2014 10:13:17 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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I have mixed feelings on this. The Silicon Valley liberals at Google etc. help elect politicians who support Jesse Jackass and his ilk. Maybe they should hire and pay incompetent friends and relatives of the democrat race baiters. The Silicon Valley executives should cut their salaries so they can pay for the “diversity.” The Silicon Valley liberals made their bed. Let them sleep in it.


19 posted on 03/27/2014 10:13:51 AM PDT by forgotten man
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“If Hewlett-Packard hand any sense they would have had security summarily throw that race baiter out the door and threaten to charge him with trespassing if he again stepped foot on their property...”

The better thing to do was for the CEO of HP is to challenge him with all relevant facts regarding problems within the black community and then ask Jessie what is he doing to try and curtail it.


20 posted on 03/27/2014 10:13:55 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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