Supreme
By Mitch Berg
What’s so funny about showing up to work on time, rational thought and planning for the future?
Joe Doakes, formerly from Como Park, emails:
I am retiring in three weeks. I gave my notice in April but my employer still has not posted my job. HR is considering the job listing. Are those minimum qualifications in line with our commitment to racial justice and diversity in the workforce, or are the minimums too restrictive considering our goal of being a progressive and enlightened workforce? Personally, I don’t care if the job goes unfilled – I’m outta here and not looking back – but it occurs to me that HR’s quandary stems from confusion about cause-and-effect.
In America’s distant past, White people owned Black people as slaves. To make up for it, my employer claims to be Equal Opportunity but in practice implements Affirmative Action to give Black people a leg up in hiring over White people. Except there aren’t enough Black people on the list of eligible candidates so we substitute another “protected class” and hire Asian women instead.
How does hiring an Asian woman today redress the injustices done to Black men a century ago? How can Affirmative Action possibly accomplish its intended goal?
Okay, let’s say it could. So why aren’t there more Black people on the eligible list? Most didn’t apply, the ones who did apply scored too low on the exam, and the ones who scored well have already been snapped up by other employers to meet their Affirmative Action goals and timetables (we do not have quotas, nobody ever has quotas, quotas are Bad; we have “goals and timetables” which are Good even though the results are identical).
Why didn’t more Black men apply for a job which requires a diploma? Why didn’t more Black men score higher? Perhaps because staying in school, showing up on time, working hard, are attributes of White culture (at least, according to the Smithsonian)…
…so obviously authentically Black people don’t apply. But is the applicant’s culture any of my employer’s business? If it is, why aren’t we testing for the cultural values of the culture we want to hire, instead of the culture we’re trying not to hire? And what are those values of Authentically Black Culture? How are they different from the values of White Culture? What should we be testing for?
We must do something about White culture! Really, why? It’s what made this nation work, it got us where we are. Why are we throwing it away? How do we as a nation, benefit from that trade?
Joe Doakes, no longer in Como Park
“It’s what’s made this nation work”
There’s your problem right there. To our new ruling elite, that’s a bug, not a feature.
June 18th, 2024 at 11:50 am
Congrats, Joe!
Man, I luv that poster or image.
June 18th, 2024 at 1:03 pm
Congrats, Joe.
I’ve got about a year left.
June 18th, 2024 at 2:16 pm
I keep wondering: if those traits are White people traits, not all Americans, then Black people traits must be different. Opposite?
So what is the opposite of hard working and honest? Lazy, shiftless, thieving?
Seriously, that is what they think are the common traits of Black people? Who wrote this, the Klan?
June 18th, 2024 at 3:31 pm
Expanding on the concept breached by JBJ: There aren’t enough qualified black men so they have to hire another oppressed group. Since Joe works in the legal industry, there probably aren’t enough qualified people of ANY “protected class”. Above all else, ANYONE before a Caucasian male.
Related question: WHY are there so few qualified black men? Systemic racism is a bullshit answer. If there truly were systemic racism, there would be NO qualified black men or women. Nor Latinos Nor Middle Easterners/Muslims.
No, one big answer to why there are so few qualified minorities can largely be found in their own culture. If life behaviors illustrated in the chart above is what it takes to become a high level white collar professional, their culture has been eschewing it for decades. Only in the last decade or so have we seen a movement to actively disdain those qualities and practices that make you “successful” in today’s modern (western civilized) world, on an institutional level.
We’re already seeing the ramifications. See: Boeing
Wait until bridges and buildings start collapsing due to diversity hiring and lowered standards.
But saying that out loud is racissssssssssssssss.
Another related question: Why are there so few black hockey players? It isn’t that the NHL and hockey in general is racist, it’s that very few black kids are ever interested in hockey to the point where the parents decide to pursue it. Too expensive you say? So is football, but there are FAR more black football players than there are black hockey players. Or alpine/Nordic skiers. Or figure skaters.
Maybe black people just don’t like being outside in the winter?
June 18th, 2024 at 3:38 pm
^ It’s probably a group effort (so no one gets blamed), but it all was inspired by some woman, Judith H Katz (remember the H).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev373c7wSRg
June 18th, 2024 at 3:40 pm
Sorry, I was responding to Mr Jones. Gives me an excuse to add this link and avoid moderation (at least I think I will).
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/african-american-history-museum-publishes-graphic-linking-rational-linear-thinking-nuclear-family-to-white-culture/
June 18th, 2024 at 4:21 pm
The interesting thing is that not only is the poster a caricature of the various white cultures (ahem) in our country, but if you did the same thing about blacks or Hispanics, you would (rightly) catch Hell about the matter. Why is bigotry apparently acceptable when it’s the politically correct doing it?
And I’m at a loss to think how apparent “cultural distinctives” like rational thought, delayed gratification, and the like are necessarily bad things. Um, didn’t things like this take us out of mud huts and put us where we are today?
June 18th, 2024 at 7:14 pm
Bill C.
As we’ve seen over the past few years, black DemoCommie lawyers seem to be setting the bar lower. To wit, I believe that Keith Ellison, Leticia James, Alvin Bragg and Fany Willis, went after low hanging fruit on Trump. Of course, it also should be noted the Juan Merchan, bozo Artie Engoron who acts like he got his law license out of a cereal box, Jack Smith and the clown in Georgia, are just as ignorant of the law. Ketanji Brown Jackson couldn’t even answer questions about constitutional law or a couple of, what I’ve heard from legal beagle friends of mine, questions on well known case law. Then, you have race hustlers like Ben Crump and even the late Johnnie Cochran, that make the profession look worse than it already does.
Your point about problems with DEI hiring vs actual qualifications, applies to the legal profession, too. Bad representation will result in additional erroneous convictions and new court cases, as well as complaints to the various legal watchdogs.
June 19th, 2024 at 1:35 am
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June 19th, 2024 at 5:32 am
didn’t things like this take us out of mud huts
Yes.
And Big Left’s goal is to push us back into the modern equivalent of the mud hut, the “high density multi-unit dwelling unit”.