My Employer Is Launching Abl Week - Adavancing Black Leaders.....yes Seriously.....

[ToraToraTora]

Now how much media froth would have been generated if one of those 3 words had been, let's say, horror of horrors, "White" ?

[jackthehat]

oodles...? none...?

Give us a clue....

[hereIam]

Unimaginable media froth TTT !

[ToraToraTora]

sorry JTT what would you like to know?

[Mamyalynne]

I knew this looked familiar - a thread from a while ago. Worth a read or maybe not, we didn't get far.

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Society-and-Culture/Question1554123-2.html

[Mamyalynne]

Perhaps get together with Apariah if they're still about, you may have some common ground for a better discussion.

[douglas9401]

Whoops, steady on now, a well known contributor doesn't like (some) members trawling past posts.

He finds it um ... ah... obsessive. :)

[Mamyalynne]

Is hard luck then - I thought two heads may be better than one.

Know what I mean?

[wolf63]

mamy - TTT might end up talking to himself.

[Mamyalynne]

I have my best conversations that way Susan.

[woofgang]

I often talk out loud to myself. The only time I get worried is when I don't know what I am going to hear.

[Mamyalynne]

That can be a worry Woof.

[Zacs-Master]

From Apariah's post 'explosion would have occurred if the word "black" had been, horror or horrors, say "white" ?'

How bizarre eh Tora?

[ToraToraTora]

well it would ZM wouldn't it? Can anyone comment on the actual question.

[Mamyalynne]

I can't really add anything , did find this statement from earlier this year.

https://qz.com/951064/jpmorgan-chases-ceo-jamie-dimon-admits-to-diversity-problems-with-black-talent-in-his-2017-letter-to-shareholders/

Everything seems to lead back to Valerie Rainford.

[douglas9401]

Oodles, Tora, there would have been oodles of froth.

[ToraToraTora]

so why is it ok to have special processes for Black people? Why is it ok to discriminate against white people?

[Mamyalynne]

I don't wish this to sound rude but if they were my employers I'd ask them for that clarification - it all reads like corporate gobbledegook to me.

My Daughter worked for a large American company in London and they had daft schemes now and then too.

[ToraToraTora]

mamy questions like that are at best ignored at worst you'll be frogmarched out of the building!

[Mamyalynne]

Like that are they?

Suppose it pays the bills - all sounds rather unnecessary, they have something to prove on a grand scale seemingly instead of just getting the best people to do the best job.

[ToraToraTora]

TBF I'm pretty happy where I work, it's just this sort of thing that is continually punted round that grates a little.