Jesse Jackson exposes vast white conspiracy to deny tech jobs to blacks

[ShootSpeeders]

Jesse, there is no conspiracy. When you can't read or even tell time, you don't get to be a software engineer. What you're demanding is more affirmative action and quotas.

Jesse Jackson to take on tech's lack of diversity - SFGate

March 19, 2014

The Rev. Jesse Jackson plans to lead a delegation to the Hewlett-Packard annual shareholders meeting on Wednesday to bring attention to Silicon Valley's poor record of including blacks and Latinos in hiring, board appointments and startup funding.

Jackson's strategy borrows from the traditional civil rights era playbook of shaming companies to prod them into transformation. Now he is bringing it to the age of social media and a booming tech industry known for its disruptive innovation.

Earl "Butch" Graves Jr., president and CEO of Black Enterprise magazine, says Jackson is shining a light on the fact that technology companies don't come close to hiring or spending what is commensurate with the demographics of their customers.

"Hopefully, what Rev. Jackson is doing will bring attention to the 800-pound gorilla in the room that nobody wants to talk about. It's high time that gets addressed," Graves says.

It's widely recognized that the tech industry lacks diversity: About one in 14 tech workers is black or Latino both in the 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.

 

[ShootSpeeders]

BTW - when will jesse do something about the lack of diversity in the NBA?

 

[Rozman]

Looks like Jackson is looking for a payout to go away....

 

[Zander]

Jackson is a poverty pimp working his trade.

He's gotta keep that cash flowing!!

 

[RetiredGySgt]

Looks like Jackson is looking for a payout to go away....

That is how he operates he threatens boycotts and pickets and then hits the business up for a payoff, if they pay he goes away. And the Government does nothing about it.

 

[CaféAuLait]

BTW - when will jesse do something about the lack of diversity in the NBA?

Dontcha know, they are "slaves" making millions and the owners are 'plantation masters'?

NBA and Racism: Time to Address the Issue - The Root

 

[ShootSpeeders]

Looks like Jackson is looking for a payout to go away....

That is how he operates he threatens boycotts and pickets and then hits the business up for a payoff, if they pay he goes away. And the Government does nothing about it.

Why should the govt do anything about it.? The threatened businesses need to grow a pair and say something like " we do not discriminate against any race and mister jackson is the racist for demanding we hire unqualified blacks over qualified whites and asians."

 

[ShootSpeeders]

BTW - when will jesse do something about the lack of diversity in the NBA?

Dontcha know, they are "slaves" making millions and the owners are 'plantation masters'?

What the NBA shows is that there is no conspiracy to hold down blacks. They are free to go as far as their abilities will take them. In pro sports that's very far indeed. In jobs that involve brains, they are unqualified and that's why no one hires them.

 

[Moonglow]

Jesse is pissed since he wanted the job at Best Buy as a member of the Nerd squad....but never got a second interview..

 

[dannyboys]

Love to see what our old friend Dee Dee will do with the tenth generation code bundles the computer scientists are busy finishing at MIT.
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