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Rev. Jesse Jackson calls for level playing field in Silicon Valley
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | November 6, 2014 | Lois Kazakoff

Posted on 11/07/2014 6:18:09 AM PST by artichokegrower

Civil rights advocate Jesse Jackson brought his campaign for more diversity in Silicon Valley workforces to The Chronicle Editorial Board Wednesday, noting that the racial separation of 50 years ago wasn’t as great as the inequality today.

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To: artichokegrower
Common core will eliminate Silicone Valley in less than ten years.

jesseh has become non sequitor

21 posted on 11/07/2014 6:33:12 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
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To: artichokegrower
Rev. Jesse Jackson calls for level playing field shakedown cash and thug featherbedding in Silicon Valley.

There, fixed it for ya.

22 posted on 11/07/2014 6:33:37 AM PST by Navy Patriot (America, a Rule of Mob nation)
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To: artichokegrower

In other words, write me a check and I’ll go away.

See Toyota.


23 posted on 11/07/2014 6:33:44 AM PST by The South Texan (The Drive By Media is America's worst enemy and American people don't know it.)
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To: artichokegrower
the racial separation of 50 years ago wasn’t as great as the inequality today

50 years ago Blacks had strong family units, worked for a living, taught their kids respect for the law, and made good homes and lives for their families despite the racism and segregation of their times.

Now far too many point to that time as an excuse to do nothing for themselves or their families and choose to live on the Gubbmint Plantation and suckle the Gubbmint teat.

24 posted on 11/07/2014 6:40:38 AM PST by Feckless (I was trained by the US << This Tagline Censored by FR >> ain't that irOnic?)
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To: artichokegrower

The poverty/race pimps found a new target, I see.

Perhaps this will make the silicon valley people less stupid about politics.


25 posted on 11/07/2014 6:41:16 AM PST by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: artichokegrower

There is open opportunity for business in Silicon Valley or anywhere else Jesse for those with the desire, drive or qualifications to compete in the private sector market.

IF you seek some force to be out on the private market by government or wishing government to make racial preferences then you are just an old desperate racist seeking welfare and a camera to stand in front of. The worst of that would be the product of someone less qualified would be probably quite defective and no one would need it anyway.


26 posted on 11/07/2014 6:42:14 AM PST by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: CatOwner
Why a majority of Asians in California vote DEM is beyond me.

First, discover that a majority of them believe if they drive two miles outside the limits of a larger California city they will be immediately beaten up by white rednecks.

Then ask them who taught them that.

Behind the wildly embellished anecdotes you will hear in reply you will inevitably find some scrawny, rat-like, progressive "activist" or another.

If the California GOP would rather sip chardonnay at private fundraisers in the Santa Ynez valley than take responsibility for the active management of their own public images, someone else is certain to do it for them.

27 posted on 11/07/2014 6:42:30 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves (Heteropatriarchal Capitalist)
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To: artichokegrower
Rev Jaxson...”I Have a Scheme!”
28 posted on 11/07/2014 6:43:30 AM PST by Awgie (truth is always stranger than fiction)
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To: artichokegrower
WHITE PRIVILEGE:

WHITES ARE PRIVILEGED TO EAT JESSE JACKSON'S SPIT

See full article here (1st paragraph, page 2):
http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/Weisberg%20Subject%20Index%20Files/J%20Disk/Jackson%20Jesse/Item%2018.pdf


29 posted on 11/07/2014 6:45:53 AM PST by Iron Munro (“EARBOLA” – the nausea one gets when hearing the sound of Barack Obama 's voice)
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To: artichokegrower

“You just gotta poke around”...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lCMUkqpI7o


30 posted on 11/07/2014 6:47:51 AM PST by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: artichokegrower

I bet their is also a West African and West Indian privilege. Those students probably have no problem getting jobs in Silicon Valley.


31 posted on 11/07/2014 6:49:41 AM PST by gusty
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To: House Atreides
I've been in the hi-tech industry all my life, and there's little that's more disruptive to advanced tech projects than a somehow-protected-from-higher-up, unqualified, affirmative-action hire. Previous efforts to streamline the job tend to go out the window to allow the hire extra time and resources to "keep up."

If such a person is (properly) compartmentalized, the hire will probably sense it. Ultimately, neither the project nor the hire is helped, outside a fat paycheck. If the hire makes unhappy noises, morale and productivity only get worse. Just like the adage "buy a woman you hate a house," to skip the whole divorce brouhaha, just give an undeserving minority a fat paycheck and leave advanced projects and their hard workers alone, if you think of kick-starting an unqualified minority's career by dropping him or her into a fast-paced high-tech environment.

Oh, but the goal is to have such a person become an executive in your company, running things in a high-tech division? Sepuku is faster, with the same result.

HF

32 posted on 11/07/2014 6:50:45 AM PST by holden
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To: A CA Guy
There is open opportunity for business in Silicon Valley or anywhere else Jesse for those with the desire, drive or qualifications to compete in the private sector market.

Jesse doesn't want actual jobs for blacks.

He wants to extort money (and a lot of it) to be handed over to his "Rainbow PUSH Coalition" for them to spend on bogus jobs programs, racial sensitivity seminars, etc.


33 posted on 11/07/2014 6:55:41 AM PST by Iron Munro (“EARBOLA” – the nausea one gets when hearing the sound of Barack Obama 's voice)
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To: artichokegrower

Pity that all of Jesse’s people call the sort of behavior that LEADS to a Silicon Valley tech job, “acting white”. . .


34 posted on 11/07/2014 6:57:18 AM PST by Salgak (Peace through Superior Firepower. . . .)
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To: originalbuckeye

Hey Jesse, you old shakedown has been, Silicon Valley is a very level playing field. To the best and brightest belong the spoils. Study, work hard, persist, achieve. It’s really very simple, and even Jesse Jackson can figure it out.


35 posted on 11/07/2014 6:57:29 AM PST by Ranger Warrior
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To: Iron Munro

The market is an open one for those preparing themselves to meet an opportunity; and frankly, Jackson doesn’t represent anyone but himself these days.


36 posted on 11/07/2014 6:57:34 AM PST by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: artichokegrower

yeah,
Silicon Valley needs quotas.
instead of the best, lets just give quota boys the jobs, not those most qualified regardless.
After all it is obammy’s way


37 posted on 11/07/2014 7:00:21 AM PST by Joe Boucher (The F.B.I. Is a division of holders Justice Dept. (Nuff said))
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To: artichokegrower

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/09/08/black-high-school-girl-teased-and-beaten-up-for-acting-too-white/


38 posted on 11/07/2014 7:00:40 AM PST by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: artichokegrower

How about we seek the best and brightest? or is that too racist for you AH?


39 posted on 11/07/2014 7:02:21 AM PST by Altura Ct.
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To: artichokegrower

“Acting White” a Barrier for Black Education

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2014/10/11/quotacting_whitequot_a_barrier_for_black_education_342958.html


40 posted on 11/07/2014 7:02:31 AM PST by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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