Same Ol’, Same Ol’, CEO Raising Salaries to $70,000 a Year, But ‘No Blacks Allowed’

By Walter L. Hilliard III

 

Not long ago, the Reverend Jesse Jackson called out Apple, Google, FaceBook and others for their lack of diversity, but nothing really ever changes and what good are a few well-placed tokens if there is no cultural change by bringing in scores of minorities, especially Black, and “growing” their presence through hiring?

 

The reality is that White business owners, hiring personnel, and otherwise, idea of diversity is and has always been “White women,” gays, often Asians– and everybody else, “to hell with you.”  Just like Affirmative Action (signed into law in 1961 by President Kennedy; expanded to include sex in 1967) was used to support Black upward mobility, initially, Whites added White women to limit Blacks opportunity and promote opportunities for White women, including their getting the contracts some of their husbands or other Whites and minorities once received.  Not to mention, corporate America and colleges using “diversity” to get around addressing Black inequality issues.

 

So what do I care if CNN, MSNBC, and the others are glamorizing some CEO named Dan Price, owner of Gravity Payments (Seattle-based credit card processing company), in a room where there’s not one single Black person (at least I didn’t see any cheering among those employees present or in his workplace when he took cameras on a tour?), when over half of the students walking onto college campuses will predominately be students of color by 2017?   I’ll tell you what– how about the media do a story of a White CEO who promotes lots of qualified Blacks (they always say “we can’t find them) to executive and upper-management positions?

 

Like I said:  “The Same Ol’, Same Ol’– Okeydoke.

 

Enough said.

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My name is Walter Hilliard III. I have a B.S. degree in Public Administration and a Masters in Psychology (specialty in Media Psychology). I’m currently seeking publishers for a book focusing on Black Self-Destruction and two inspirational eBooks, having already published a multitude of articles in several different newspapers and magazines over the years. I’ve been a head basketball coach on the high school and college level, and taught success classes at a private college, created numerous community and college programs focusing on leadership, mentoring, college awareness (for inner-city kids), and employment and training. And I have worked as an employment and training manager, family therapist, behavior specialist, college retention specialist, juvenile detention center treatment supervisor, and a contractor, facilitating relationship and marriage education groups for couples. The purpose of Universal Soul Power is to confront negative media messages about African Americans, proliferate positive messages about the Black community, and inspire all those who are part of the universe, but especially African Americans, through my inspirational writings. The truth is that most African Americans haven’t lost their Spiritual Souls, yet (although some of us behave like we’ve lost our minds), but we have lost our “Soul” — that NewRhythmandBluesyContemporaryHipHopSoul that allows us to be compassionate, productive leaders who recognize what really matters in life and live our lives beyond fad terms like “Swag,” instead embracing more fulfilling concepts like being Calm, Cool, and Collected, and knowing what they are all about: being your “growing self,” dancing to your own Life Drum, in tune, on beat, unfazed by fear, and leaving the world a better place when they move on. Now dat’s Real Soul, and dat’s whatum talkin’ ’bout! Walter L. Hilliard III