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    Doing Diversity Wrong

    Virgil Lee Griffin, Famous Racist

    Post Cartoon Shoots a Monkey for Writing the Stimulus Bill

    MSNBC Host Sorry He Called You People 'Colored'

    Celebrate Black History Month With Ham Hocks and Other Black People Food!

    Small Rewards

    'NYT' Café Marks Black History Month With Chocolate And Watermelon

    Black History Month Ends On Bad Week For Brown People
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    Image of nowimpissed nowimpissed
    02/24/09

    In reply to Doing Diversity Wrong
    My old law firm once put the black guy who works in IT in a suit and had him posing with some lawyers looking at a computer screen. The picture then went into the attorney recruiting materials as evidence of our "diversity."
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    Image of britneyspearstears britneyspearstears
    02/24/09

    @nowimpissed: Wow. Epic!
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    Image of sample032 sample032
    02/24/09

    In reply to Doing Diversity Wrong
    "Hire a staff made up of many different types of people: Problem solved. (Though you may personally still be a jerk)."


    Or you could hire people based on their, gasp, qualifications.

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    Image of Shelwood Shelwood
    02/25/09

    @sample032: Those statements are not mutually exclusive, unless you think only white men will be the most qualified.
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    Image of contradicto contradicto
    02/24/09

    In reply to Doing Diversity Wrong
    I once had sales pitch to Walmart on diversity training. At there request we had to basically give a diversity class as the sales pitch.


    They never called us back, but seemed to enjoy our training and materials since they stole it for their internal use.

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    Image of Colonel Mustard Colonel Mustard
    02/24/09

    In reply to Doing Diversity Wrong
    I guess they couldn't afford Gwyneth Paltrow.


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    Image of Slump-Buster-Buster Slump-Buster-Buster
    02/24/09

    In reply to Doing Diversity Wrong
    "Does Gawker.com have any diversity to speak of?"


    Oh Snap, no you didn't. Gawker, you just got served.

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    Image of contradicto contradicto
    02/24/09

    @Slump-Buster-Buster: @dinahshore: That really isn't fair. I know of at least three different types of gays on staff.
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    Image of Flackette Goes Retro Flackette Goes Retro
    02/24/09

    @Slump-Buster-Buster: Let's ask the last woman who was fired.
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    Image of contradicto contradicto
    02/24/09

    @Flackette is a Red State Elitist: While I do believe that there are some incredibly smart and talented women who have worked for Gawker.com that I sorely miss. The Denton-is-a-mysogynist thing is a tad unfair. It is not like there are no women whatsoever working in Gawker Media.
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    02/24/09

    In reply to Doing Diversity Wrong
    And what gang sign is the matriarch throwing, anyway?
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    Image of LatestBy LatestBy
    02/24/09

    @Smitros: I believe she's going for a "W for Wal-Mart siiiiide"
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    02/24/09

    @LatestBy:


    That just throws down the gauntlet to the Target posse.

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    Image of StonedAndDethroned StonedAndDethroned
    02/24/09

    In reply to Doing Diversity Wrong
    Hamilton, that woman is Africa. She just has many pictures of her many children
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    Image of TheMac TheMac
    02/24/09

    @StonedAndDethroned: Win.
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    Image of dinahshore dinahshore
    02/24/09

    In reply to Doing Diversity Wrong
    Does Gawker.com have any diversity to speak of?
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    Image of Mount_Prion Mount_Prion
    02/24/09

    @dinahshore: They show their diversity from other companies by not allowing women!
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    Image of Eleanor Ramilly Eleanor Ramilly
    02/24/09

    @Mount_Prion wants gchat: HAHAHA
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    Image of KillMeNow no longer has a future in journalism KillMeNow no longer has a future in journalism
    02/24/09

    @Mount_Prion wants gchat: Beat me. They look like the Daily Show look like a bastion of gender equality.
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    Image of Hamilton Nolan Hamilton Nolan
    02/24/09

    @dinahshore: Plenty!

    -- your straight white male Diversity Correspondent.
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    02/24/09

    In reply to Doing Diversity Wrong
    Point three touches on class, which opens up another can of worms that is well worth opening.
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    Image of hortense hortense
    02/24/09

    In reply to Doing Diversity Wrong
    Wal-Mart celebrates Black History and the art of storytelling.


    Wait, what?


    Also: last year's flyer uses "Black History" and this year's flyer uses "African-American History."

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    Image of Lymed Lymed
    02/24/09

    @hortense: It's about time somebody took a stand and kept those Haitan-Americans and Jamaican-Americans out of February's celebrations!
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    Image of Ohcaptainmycaptain Ohcaptainmycaptain
    02/24/09

    In reply to Doing Diversity Wrong
    Remember: Any white male must always be depicted as an idiot. He's the dummy who pays too much for cell phone service. He buys the wimpy-looking sandwich; Spills it on his shirt in a detergent commercial. He gets fewer channels with his cable system. In an office setting his suggestion is absolutely retarded.


    Enter: Confident black woman who displays her expertise and know-how in any of the above situations.

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    Image of Baroness Baroness
    02/24/09

    @Ohcaptainmycaptain: Is this your diary entry? It sounds like it would make a great sitcom, actually.


    I wish a confident, expert African-American lady would barge into my home and take charge, actually. That would be fabulous.

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    Image of Eleanor Ramilly Eleanor Ramilly
    02/24/09

    In reply to Doing Diversity Wrong
    Maybe the couple had a child.
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    Image of Spirit Fingers Spirit Fingers
    02/19/09

    In reply to Post Cartoon Shoots a Monkey for Writing the Stimulus Bill
    I will say my two cents and then get off this exhaustive thread.


    1) I've tried to look at the cartoon through "ignorant to racial stereotypes" eyes, and I still come up with racist. I don't know what's worse, out-and-out racism, or the blind-eye business that comes with not knowing your history with regard to demeaning, degrading, caricatures. So either way I call the writer and the editor a collective of racist, opportunist, dumbfucks who should be fired.


    2) I never want Sharpton to speak on the side of the righteous. I'm sorry, but he never helps. In many instances he makes things worse. Once he gets involved...*sigh* whatever he's ranting about becomes a less than serious issue. In my view, he was pretty much over and done with after Tawanna Brawley. I'm not a native New Yorker, you see, so being from the South, I have no love for him. I'd even dare say, he's really just a hometown hack, but that doesn't negate the fact that he's right that the cartoon is racist.

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    Image of Maulleigh Maulleigh
    02/18/09

    In reply to Post Cartoon Shoots a Monkey for Writing the Stimulus Bill
    Okay, I take back my last statement. I've thought about it some more. Daym! That is offensive! What an idiot.
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    Image of Maulleigh Maulleigh
    02/18/09

    In reply to Post Cartoon Shoots a Monkey for Writing the Stimulus Bill
    While his other comics you listed are really offensive, I'm gonna give Sean the benefit of the doubt on this one. I think what he meant to say was something about the chimp mauling? I just don't "get" it. I don't think he's making Obama the chimp. That's just too 1865.


    Or a King Kong joke?


    Although I am naive.

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