Comments on: Can You Prevent a ‘Todd Akin’ Moment at Your Organization? http://www.diversityinc.com/diversity-training/can-you-prevent-a-todd-akin-moment-at-your-organization/ DiversityInc: Diversity and the Bottom Line Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:27:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Luke Visconti http://www.diversityinc.com/diversity-training/can-you-prevent-a-todd-akin-moment-at-your-organization/comment-page-1/#comment-9521 Luke Visconti Wed, 19 Sep 2012 17:43:22 +0000 http://www.diversityinc.com/?p=19344#comment-9521 Your comment makes no sense to me. I’ve never heard Joe Biden make a mean-spirited comment – ever. He got into trouble with his boss (who dithered for far too many years on this subject IMHO) when he made the gay marriage comment. Joe Biden probably did more for America with that one “moment” than the next 50 politicians added together. As far as the “in chains” comment, he was right on the money. The more than $1-trillion fines assessed to banks for the subprime crimes doesn’t begin to address what Pew Research shows: Blacks used to have one-tenth the wealth of white households, now they have one-twentieth the wealth. If that’s not putting Black people into chains, I don’t know what is. The fines were assessed due to overt targeting of Black-, Latino- and women-headed households. I’d say Joe Biden didn’t go far enough: I wish he had said that there should be a few bank executives, starting with Angelo Mozilo, in chains. I love Joe Biden.

We should all have some Joe Biden moments. Luke Visconti, CEO, DiversityInc

]]> By: Hector http://www.diversityinc.com/diversity-training/can-you-prevent-a-todd-akin-moment-at-your-organization/comment-page-1/#comment-9507 Hector Wed, 19 Sep 2012 15:42:00 +0000 http://www.diversityinc.com/?p=19344#comment-9507 I can take the first two paragraphs from this article and replace with” Can you prevent a “Joe Biden “moment in your organization?” and keep the rest of the article intact .
During this heated political year in particular and unless I have missed an article similar to this identifying Democratic gaffes I find it quite offensive that one side of our political world is chastised or made an example of to make a diversity point. The present Administration has made several comments that reflect badly on women, Blacks begin articulate and well spoken, Donuts shop owners, being Indian foreign cab drivers, Blacks in chains, and I find no article on that from DiversityInc. Like I said I could have missed that one Democratic example compared to several of the Republicans side – if the political leaning of this magazine is to the left I am disappointed.
The rest of the article addresses points to take away from such incidents but the point is made up front as to who said it. Corporations are not the only entity that do not have power over our thought or speech. Government entities are not exempt from the same diversity initiatives – even if they speak from both sides of the mouth – and that should be made apparent in any write-up.
Diversity and Inclusion is a value for all sides to practice and by only “blaming” one side for non diverse comments implies the other side is correct in all they say. Giving the Democrats and this Administration a free pass from their own indiscretions is paramount to DiversityInc violating its own “value” of diversity. But then again one only blames others when they have hidden agendas to expound.

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