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EEOC REGULATIONS & CORPORATE DIVERSITY: HONESTY BECOMES A CRIME
By Lewis J. Goldberg
As the corporate broadcast email arrived in my inbox in early June, the death knell sounded. The email subject line was: "Diversity." It seems that some low-level hire (who was not bright enough to figure out the company did hire him) "discovered" some office comment to be self-righteously indignant about and brought it to the attention of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), which, in turn, sued my company. After a protracted fight, some untold millions of dollars in extortion was paid, and my company quietly entered the world of plastic-face-mask-diversity, where half or more of everyone pictured in company literature is dark-hued and smiling (despite the fact that only one in six Americans is Black, with yet smaller proportions for other minorities).
The aforementioned email told of the settled court case and proudly introduced its latest scheme to appear diverse--a request for all the far-flung outposts of the company to send in pictures of "diverse" employees at work, for inclusion all over the company's website (since those Black ad agency models they used previously weren't convincing enough). I jested with my wife that we should send in pictures of the seven or eight White guys we have, and see if they include us on the website, but that would be deceiving, since there are another seven or eight of us that are Indian (India-Indian, not Amerindian, i.e., not Comanche, Apache, Cherokee, Navaho, Walla Walla, Arapaho, Cheyenne, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Seminole, Tuscarora, Shawnee, etc.). There's a funny thing about Indians and technokogy; they know how to work it, in many cases, better than anyone else. When there are job openings, they show up, and, oddly enough, are generally hired, while "the diversity" (as Fred Reed so eloquently puts it) don't show up, and [gasp!] are not hired.
The "Black vacuum" in the professional world has created a climate where almost any Black that shows up dressed for the job gets it, despite the fact that everyone knows the candidate likely got into school on a quota, passed classes on a quota, graduated on a quota, and received job placement assistance on a quota.
I have had the pleasure to work with only one Black programmer in this company--a Black man who was a pre-diversity hire. He was utterly brilliant. I would watch his fingers on the keys as he wrote code. He was a natural, and could find work anywhere he wanted. Shortly after we worked together, the company fell on hard times, and he, being relatively new, was due for "the ax." The ax eventually fell, and we lost touch, but I have total confidence that he is working, and probably out-earning me. He deserves it.
But that was the old company. The "new" company will have to hire from the information on the race survey sheet, rather than the resume. It is a joke that the race questions are always marked "this information is entirely voluntary," because everyone knows that, if you don't fill it out, the
"diversity-sensitive" folks in the Human Resources department won't even want to glance at your resume. Even if you're White, they want to know that you are White, so they can check their quotas. If you don't fill out the sheet, you mess up their numbers.
The EEOC--Like Jesse Jackson With Badges and Guns:
The EEOC [Economic Extortion of Corporations] was formed, ostensibly to root out companies that practice systematic discrimination against Blacks and other minorities. However, the EEOC is being used instead to police the thoughts and intentions of individuals in the workplace after members of the minority group in question are already hired. Since the Feds don't play fair, we are not allowed to bring up the fact that they create a climate of hostility, and then use it to extort money from corporations for the natural actions of individuals (which are impossible to control, except by fear and intimidation, which creates even more hostility). This is like setting a building on fire, and then standing nearby with a hose and a cash register, charging the owner to put the fire out.
Back in the "bad old days" of racial segregation, when you went into an establishment displaying a sign saying "NO BLACKS," or "WHITES ONLY," you pretty much knew what you'd find inside, and had every opportunity to avoid it, if desired. In today's climate, the signs still hang in the backs of some men's minds, but no one is allowed to know. Otherwise brilliant Blacks may end up wasting years working for someone who, because of the almighty diversity, hired them, but has a particular glass ceiling in mind, come promotion time. You want to know this before filling out the application, not five or eight years down the road.
Some will say that I am advocating a restoration of "Jim Crow." What I am really advocating is honesty, something that is not in fashion anymore. In fact, to be accurate, honesty is illegal in the United States, if the honesty has anything to do with ethnicity, race, gender, or sexual orientation (which, in my book, has two classifications--normal and abnormal).
At one time, it was taught in the public schools that we must even safeguard the right of Nazis, Neo-Nazis, and Ku Klux Klansmen to speak freely, parade down Main Street, etc., else the rest of us stand to loose our precious freedom of speech. Today, it is acceptable to discriminate against unpopular forms of speech, even mandated, in the case of the EEOC and its unconstitutional regulations. The Founding Fathers knew we would have to fight to safeguard our rights, and if they could see how it is today, with every major corporation cracking open their checkbook and bragging about how many freaks work for them (not races and ethnic groups here, but the rest of the diversity circus), they'd draw the same conclusion as I have: We don't deserve to have rights anymore, and soon enough, we won't.
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