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Twelve Northrop Grumman Employees Receive National Women of Color Technology Awards
PrimeNewswire via COMTEX ^ | Nov 5, 2007 | Northrop Grumman Corp.

Posted on 11/05/2007 5:34:28 AM PST by Brilliant

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Congratulations... I guess.
1 posted on 11/05/2007 5:34:29 AM PST by Brilliant
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And yet the other women who happen to be white and have accomplished just as much are given a buy one get one free coupon at Hardees...
2 posted on 11/05/2007 5:38:08 AM PST by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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Was there a 2007 National Women of No Color Technology Awards?


3 posted on 11/05/2007 5:39:04 AM PST by AU72
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" 2007 National Women of Color Technology Awards"

What an ugly, racicst title.

4 posted on 11/05/2007 5:40:31 AM PST by StormEye
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National Women of Color Technology Awards

Sorry, but this is absolutely rediculous...and, IMHO, un-American.

If these women, or any other, achieve technological innovation or excellence that benifits the nation, then by all means, honor them nationally...their skin color, race, haricolor, eye color, the size of their thighs, etc. ad nauseum not-with-standing.

By doing this, the foolish, mushy, liberal minds that came up with it are perpetuating the thought and myth that woman of color MUST be classed apart because they are somehow unable to compete when grouped with everyone else. They are not only disciminating against woman who are not "of color", they are discriminating against and demeaning the very people who get such awards.

Either their ideological blindness and emotion prevents them from seeing this...or, more likely, they are doing it with a will.

5 posted on 11/05/2007 5:43:55 AM PST by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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Twelve Northrop Grumman Employees Receive National Women of Color Technology Awards

My question is, why does Northrop Grumman employ so many women whose specialty is Color Technology?


6 posted on 11/05/2007 5:44:26 AM PST by Nervous Tick
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And yet the other women who happen to be white and have accomplished just as much are given a buy one get one free coupon at Hardees...

Naaaah... That would be rubbing it in. I'm sure that they honored them by doing nothing for them.

7 posted on 11/05/2007 5:45:11 AM PST by Brilliant
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2007 National Women of Color Technology Awards

One can only hope that women of color will someday be as capable as everyone else so the existance of a "special" award to recognize their achievement at an other level than that of their peers will be deemed both irrelevant and insulting.


8 posted on 11/05/2007 5:47:48 AM PST by chrisser
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One day - this will be looked at as racism...
9 posted on 11/05/2007 5:48:18 AM PST by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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It seems condescending to me.


10 posted on 11/05/2007 5:48:22 AM PST by Brilliant
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and in other news:

Twelve Northrop Grumman Employees Receive National Women of Technology, Color Awards.

11 posted on 11/05/2007 5:48:23 AM PST by Vaquero (" an armed society is a polite society" Heinlein "MOLON LABE!" Leonidas of Sparta)
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Ah yes - The vaunted techno-twofers!

I have no gripes about women or minorities in the high-tech fields - provided they compete with white guys like me on the basis of their talent, and not on their gender/skin color.

If they are better than me - I’d best catch the heck up.

If they are not better, they should be doing the catch-up work.


12 posted on 11/05/2007 5:50:19 AM PST by MortMan (Have a pheasant plucking day!)
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“I have no gripes about women or minorities in the high-tech fields - provided they compete with white guys like me on the basis of their talent, and not on their gender/skin color.”

How intolerant of you. /s

Most large companies have quotas for anyone non-white and non-male. HR will go to hiring managers and tell them to focus on ‘minority’ candidates. Being a white male does not look good on the resume.


13 posted on 11/05/2007 5:59:30 AM PST by driftdiver
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Now if someone could please tell me what skin pigmentation level or genital configuration has to do with technological innovation?


14 posted on 11/05/2007 6:08:47 AM PST by coloradan (Failing to protect the liberties of your enemies establishes precedents that will reach to yourself.)
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“..National Women of Color Technology Awards..”

Is there such a thing as a National Colorless Women Technology Award?


15 posted on 11/05/2007 6:29:44 AM PST by 353FMG (Government is the opiate of the masses.)
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To: Abathar

Tan is a color


16 posted on 11/05/2007 6:33:43 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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Naw, there’s awards for women engineers as well, in order to make sure they don’t think they can compete with men in the field.


17 posted on 11/05/2007 7:16:47 AM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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To: Brilliant

As a NASA retiree who had the privilege of working on our space program from the days of Werner Von Braun recently lamented, “I remember when we used to be the best and the brightest. Now all we are is the most colorful”.


18 posted on 11/05/2007 7:24:03 AM PST by Kenton (All vices in moderation. I don't want to overdo any but I don't want to skip any either.)
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Congratulate the Ladies accomplishments; there's no reason to be miserly; there are plenty of awards available. Recognize the “Women of Color” moniker as secondary for each individually but important in other ways. It is an Illustration that “Women of Color” (and anyone of ambition and ability regardless of race or sex) can and do succeed in the United States of America.
19 posted on 11/05/2007 7:33:45 AM PST by ricks_place
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I’m always tempted to ask these folks who are so enamored with using minorities as props to showcase their own conceited sense of enlightenment what percent of their technology was the result of the efforts of the most despicable group of individuals, i.e. white men.


20 posted on 11/05/2007 12:46:46 PM PST by AdamSelene235 (Truth has become so rare and precious she is always attended to by a bodyguard of lies.)
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