Comments on: Affirmative Action Benefits Whites Too … More Than You Think

By: Luke Visconti

Luke Visconti — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 13:55:51 +0000

How on earth do you know what behavior “permeates the majority of black America”? With your attitude, I’m sure you have to sneak up on any Black people who know you in order to get within earshot. And the ones who don’t know you are warned off by the belt-and-suspenders-with-Confederate-flag-ball-cap outfit. Take your AOL email address, get in your 19-year-old Ford Tempo, hit the local Cracker Barrel (you know, the one south of you in New Stanton) and leave us alone, please. (Bet you thought I couldn’t see you.) Luke Visconti, CEO, DiversityInc

By: LIBERTYSINCURSION

LIBERTYSINCURSION — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 20:07:17 +0000

Oh, how simple minded of me to think that laws designed in the actual writing itself to benefit minorities only actually benefits minorities only, who would’ve thought. Seriously though, I don’t buy it for a moment that these white people that she supposedly works with in a fortune 500 company barely made it out of high school with a diploma and are now given jobs that they don’t deserve. Here once again we have an African American women doing what they and their male counterparts have been doing for the last 40 years. Laying full claim and ownership to the benefits that come with what they see as the positive part of Affirmative Action, meaning the education, the job, the financial bonuses and all the other perks that come with it.

And assigning the negative parts of Affirmative Action like discriminating against more qualified hard working and deserving people because of the color of their skin, or hiring and promoting a person beyond what they’ve earned because of the color of their skin to white people. This kind of, when things go right I did it, when things go wrong you did it behavior, sadly permeates the majority of black America.

There is a name used to describe people who engage in this kind of behavior where they instinctively blame another race of people for all their problems, and that name is Racist. Well, at least if their white, and blaming another race for all their problems they’re known as a racist. When blacks do it they’re usually known as “the victim of racism” or, and this is my favorite a “Civil Rights Leader”. The Hypocrisy Is Sickening.

By: Joe Yates

Joe Yates — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 01:59:57 +0000

Fran, I partially agree with you! First I am a black middle age male professional who has worked in management from supervisory level to the president level for over a 30 years period. I agree with you on the basis of your example but as the, old folks use to say, “the devil is in the details”! I have reviewed several of these claims and have seen them “for the most part” fall apart when the details are reviewed! Example I’ve seen cases where a male with 10 years more of service and a female were promoted at roughly the same time to the same titled position and she felt that their starting pay in the new position should have been equalized! Bluntly stated, not in the real world! Not even in the public sector! But, she was miserable because she felt she was being discriminated against! We throw around the term “wage/salary inequity” so loosely that problems are assumed that don’t exist! Where they exist I champion stomping them out! Just make sure the details are reviewed before committing emotional energy!

By: Fran

Fran — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 16:22:55 +0000

Joe I agree with you. However, if both the white and the Black person are promoted at the same time to a similiar position or someone is promoted later and you have been doing that job an they are being paid a higher salary then there is a problem. Women of color are hit twice, they are a female and they are of color!!
I have seen where most whites (not all) believes that claims of racism are non legitimate or as you put it, cring wolf!!

By: Joe Yates

Joe Yates — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 15:39:58 +0000

I’m always concerned with discrimination charges that lack merit, because of the real and perceived damages to credible claims that they causes. Just because a woman/minority has the same title as someone else does not entitle them to the same pay. Several questions must be asked and that data provided. Are years of service the same, is performance the same are the primary two questions/piece of information that “must” be provided. Variances in theses two areas can get these charges thrown out almost immediately! (And create a lot of skepticism for future claims.) When these two are the same and differences in compensation exist there are legitimate grounds for a case. When there is not, the person is crying wolf!

By: Donald Tomaskovic-Devey

Donald Tomaskovic-Devey — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 12:20:52 +0000

The black woman who observes that she is more qualified than her white colleagues is probably on to something. My research with Kevin Stainback shows that after the civil rights act the hiring of more black men, black women, and white women tended to increase good job opportunities for white men. A higher proportion of white men got into skilled blue collar, professional and managerial jobs as a result. The same holds today in cities with large non-white labor forces.