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Out of Twitter’s 2,910 U.S. employees, only 49 (1.7 percent) are black, and that fact has black activists led by Rev. Jesse Jackson racing to condemn the company.
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“African Americans use social media more than others, the corporations continue to build and profit from that, so it is especially problematic that they do not have an employee base that in any way reflects its users,” Color of Change managing director Arisha Hatch told the Guardian. “They have really failed on this.”
Jackson added that the lack of black employees isn’t due to a lack of qualified applicants.
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Data doesn’t necessarily back up Jackson’s claim, though. While blacks are about 13 percent of the U.S. population, they earn only 4.5 percent of computer science degrees from leading programs.
We already know the ending of the story. Twitter will pay Jackson off... Jackson will go away happy... Twitter will still employ 49 black people.
Well, before I jump the gun, there will need to be a lawsuit first...
Out of Twitter’s 2,910 U.S. employees, only 49 (1.7 percent) are black, and that fact has black activists led by Rev. Jesse Jackson racing to condemn the company.
...
“African Americans use social media more than others, the corporations continue to build and profit from that, so it is especially problematic that they do not have an employee base that in any way reflects its users,” Color of Change managing director Arisha Hatch told the Guardian. “They have really failed on this.”
Jackson added that the lack of black employees isn’t due to a lack of qualified applicants.
...
Data doesn’t necessarily back up Jackson’s claim, though. While blacks are about 13 percent of the U.S. population, they earn only 4.5 percent of computer science degrees from leading programs.
We already know the ending of the story. Twitter will pay Jackson off... Jackson will go away happy... Twitter will still employ 49 black people.
Well, before I jump the gun, there will need to be a lawsuit first...
Out of Twitter’s 2,910 U.S. employees, only 49 (1.7 percent) are black, and that fact has black activists led by Rev. Jesse Jackson racing to condemn the company.
... “African Americans use social media more than others, the corporations continue to build and profit from that, so it is especially problematic that they do not have an employee base that in any way reflects its users,” Color of Change managing director Arisha Hatch told the Guardian. “They have really failed on this.”
Jackson added that the lack of black employees isn’t due to a lack of qualified applicants.
... Data doesn’t necessarily back up Jackson’s claim, though. While blacks are about 13 percent of the U.S. population, they earn only 4.5 percent of computer science degrees from leading programs.
We already know the ending of the story. Twitter will pay Jackson off... Jackson will go away happy... Twitter will still employ 49 black people.
Well, before I jump the gun, there will need to be a lawsuit first...
That`s the stupidest damn thing I ever heard.
Why would they need an employee base that reflects the race of the users?
They need an employee race make-up that reflects people who know how to make Twitter work!
Actually it will be majority white guys, minority asian and heavily male.
It has been a problem since I was running a large engineering prganization 35 years ago.
And places that grow quick never get around to fixing it until the feds come calling. And they are a lot worse than Jackson.
How is it a "problem"? Whites are still 62% of the population and Asians are only 5%. Degreed and qualified engineers and programers are possibly over 80- 90% white and male. Should white males then only be 40% of the engineering employees and underrepresented while Asians, Hispanics, and women are the rest and overrepresented? The latter would be a problem to me.
There are plenty of other fields many of them lucrative that whites and males are underrepresented. But that's no "problem" to progressives.
So I guess in practice we also effectively have forced affirmative action even in private sector employment not just public or contractor employment. Did anyone really think otherwise?
How is it a "problem"? Whites are still 62% of the population and Asians are only 5%. Degreed and qualified engineers and programers are possibly over 80- 90% white and male. Should white males then only be 40% of the engineering employees and underrepresented while Asians, Hispanics, and women are the rest and overrepresented? The latter would be a problem to me.
There are plenty of other fields many of them lucrative that whites and males are underrepresented. But that's no "problem" to progressives.
So I guess in practice we also effectively have forced affirmative action even in private sector employment not just public or contractor employment. Did anyone really think otherwise?
Ohh it is a problem alright. Anything that brings government scrutiny is always a problem. In actual fact we have the system wired against females. And misogynist behavior among engineers is so common it is hard to convince a neutral observer it is not corporate policy..
And when growing fast you want bodies to do the work and don't hold the jobs you might get a female to take until you find one. Than you end up with no good bait for the ladies.
Everybody screws it up and scrambles to fix so half competent females make out like bandits. And a Black Female...golden. Use to have a female administrative assistant who was 1/8th American Indian. Came up through drafting and model shop and worth her weight in gold. No idea how things worked but knew exactly what needed to be done to get something built. And that is how you fix a lot of this. Let the ladies run the show.
Affirmative action and disparate impact theory strikes again.
Affirmative Action?
Any business is free to set voluntary goals for diversity for themselves and some have done so. It's typically temporary and done because the company had discriminatory hiring practices.
Any business is free to set voluntary goals for diversity for themselves and some have done so. It's typically temporary and done because the company had discriminatory hiring practices.
Absolutely not. It's not really voluntary. Private companies risk lawsuits both by private individuals and the government for not hiring "enough" or the "right" amount of nonwhites and females.
And it's not done because the "company had discriminatory hiring practices". It's often based on disparate impact theory and on not hiring the "right" amount of people based on their race and sex.
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