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Jesse Jackson: Tech Diversity Is Next Civil Rights Step
theodp writes: U.S. civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson called on the Obama administration Monday to scrutinize the tech industry's lack of diversity. "There's no talent shortage. There's an opportunity shortage," Jackson said, calling Silicon Valley "far worse" than many others, such as car makers that have been pressured by unions. He said tech behemoths have largely escaped scrutiny by a public dazzled with their cutting-edge gadgets. Jackson spoke to press after meeting with Labor Secretary Tom Perez for a review of H-1B visas, arguing that data show Americans have the skills and should have first access to high-paying tech work. Jackson's Rainbow Push Coalition plans to file a freedom-of-information request next month with the EEOC to acquire employment data for companies that have not yet disclosed it publicly, which includes Amazon, Broadcom, Oracle, Qualcomm and Yelp. Unlike the Dept. of Labor, Jackson isn't buying Silicon Valley's argument that minority hiring statistics are trade secrets. Five years after Google's HR Chief would only reassure Congress the company had "a very strong internal Black Googler Network" and its CEO brushed off similar questions about its diversity numbers by saying "we're pretty happy with the way our recruiting work," Google — under pressure from Jackson — fessed up to having a tech workforce that's only 1% Black, apparently par for the course in Silicon Valley.
Posting as A. C because you are afraid to face the Black Man.
Comander Taco, Now is the time for a -1 RACIST moderation to put these peope in there places!
Who's going to read to the athletes and rappers?
I've worked with plenty of Indians, and fully half of them were below average.
I know, right? And 40% of the days they take off are either Mondays or Fridays.
Ohm's law is handled on 4th year.
So what you are saying is that we need a program where kids go in to read to athletes and rappers?
My sci-fi novel, Ghost Thief, is now available from Amazon.com.
I pray, when they die, the ghost of MLK spends eternity bitch-slapping the both of them day in and day out.
I think MLK is going to be too busy spanking his kids for eternity after the way they've fought over and tarnished his legacy these past few decades.
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
Something about resistance is futile, right? Or is that Borg's law?
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Did they also receive 50% fewer callbacks, or were the callbacks they received only of poorer quality?