Advancing Black Leaders.........

[Apariah]

That is the title of an email my employer has just distributed. Discuss.

[Guilbert53]

>>>Discuss.

No

[Hopkirk]

Not unless you give us the full contents of the e mail.

[Mamyalynne]

These people may be better placed to discuss it with.


https://www.jpmorganchase.com/corporate/news/stories/abl-summary.htm

[Old_Geezer]

What; like Mugabe you mean ?

[-Talbot-]

You mean like Robert Mugabe?
He's well advanced ... over 90 I believe.

[Old_Geezer]

Trying to guess what this is all about. I can only suggest, if you find yourself working for a racist company, to leave, and find one that is colour blind.

[Mamyalynne]

Without context we are somewhat at a loss, the title could be relevant to increasing production in a pencil factory for all we know.

[Postdog]

No worse than red leaders in my opinion.

[trt]

I thought Obama had left the White House!!!

[EDDIE51]

Totally meaningless without knowing the content of the email.

[douglas9401]

The ants are on the march. Be afraid!

[RobNorth]

Divebuddy is spot on - every day deserving people are passed over for jobs or promotion because of positive discrimination, but their rights are as nothing....
On the wider scale, the caste system is still operational, unless you are ethnic, in which case it is overridden by Law.....

[pixie374]

There's no such thing as "positive discrimination". It's just discrimination. Whether it's positive is completely subjective.

[birdie1971]

Pixie374 - “There's no such thing as "positive discrimination". It's just discrimination. Whether it's positive is completely subjective.”

What a wonderfully succinct and accurate answer.

[vetuste_ennemi]

//There's no such thing as "positive discrimination". It's just discrimination.//

Exactly so, Pixie.

The principles behind the "positive" bit are these

1. We shouldn't choose whites in preference to blacks.
2. We should have an equal playing field whereby people are selected on merit.
(Everybody happy so far?)
But -
3. Every black, while the slave chains and shackles have in a literal sense been long since removed, still suffers an inheritance of disadvantage: typically more poor, with fewer opportunities for higher education, and, then, met with prejudice and denied advancement when able to overcome these obstacles.

Redressing these historic impediments requires firstly acknowledging them, and secondly compensating for them. This is what the policy of "positive discrimination" means: we take "affirmative action" to create a level playing field by adjusting for inherited inequalities.

Example:

Harvard entrance exam requires a pass mark of 80%.
A "privileged" white male candidate for admission achieves that score. An historically encumbered black entrant might only achieve 70%. But the (arithmetically) failed candidate is (allowance being made for his undeserved impediments to success) equally talented and equally worthy of a place.

[vetuste_ennemi]

Bloofdy hell, it's Birdie again.

People will start to talk.

What happened to last night's thread when honest injun VE corrected the false assertion that Islam wants to kill us?

[birdie1971]

VE - “... People will start to talk....”

Let them.

;-)

[birdie1971]

“Could not retrieve that thread”

Translation: We are cowards and we don't support free speech.

That is why I very rarely bother with this site very much these days.

[vetuste_ennemi]

// People will start to talk//

The black conservative Thomas Sowell (a VE hero) used this phrase in an interview about his early life.

Young bright black kid in Harlem(!) got a bit naughty (probably through boredom) from time to time and ended up several
times in detention. (Probably guess he was twelve or thirteen.)

"If we go on meeting like this, Miss (whoever), people will start to talk.".

Miss (whoever): "Yes, Sowell, I will just have to live with the scandal".