White Privilege

Spike Trader said:
Tech jobs: Minorities have degrees, but don't get hired

SAN FRANCISCO – Top universities turn out black and Hispanic computer science and computer engineering graduates at twice the rate that leading technology companies hire them, a USA TODAY analysis shows.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/...graduates-african-american-hispanic/14684211/
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So what this article is basically saying is that only a small percentage of computer science and computer engineering graduates from the top 179 North American universities are black or hispanic. The chart in the article shows that there is a much higher number of Asian graduates in tech company jobs, while whites, blacks, and hispanics have a lower percentage of IT workers in tech jobs than the percentage of graduates.

If you take the bland statistics as presented then Asians are greatly over-represented in the IT workforce (44% of the jobs while 19% of the graduates). This means that we need to take proactive measures to boost the percentage of IT employees who are white, black, or hispanic - while culling the Asians from the workforce.

This is a very sad message to America - we should be looking at the skills of applicants not setting quotas based on race - which is what this article wants us to do with our IT workforce.
 
dbphoenix said:
'Just Because He's Black, Doesn't Mean He's Here To Rob A House' (VIDEO)
The Huffington Post | By Simon McCormack
Posted: 10/10/2014 12:33 pm EDT Updated: 10/10/2014 1:59 pm EDT

An interaction between Washington, D.C. police, a black handyman and a white lawyer could shine a light on the way race affects people's interactions with authorities.

The video shows Dennis Stucky seated on the curb in Foxhall, a wealthy neighborhood in D.C last week. A black female officer has stopped Stucky in connection with a reported burglary in an adjacent neighborhood three-quarters-of-a-mile away, according to the Washington Post.

Although the alarm was sounding in an adjacent subdivision — three-quarters of a mile away by car — one of the officers ordered the 64-year-old man to sit on the curb while she put on disposable gloves and prepared to search him.

Jody Westby, a resident and lawyer, rushed to Stucky’s defense, angrily telling the officers that Stucky had been a neighborhood fix-it man for 30 years and that they were not at the right house. The officers reluctantly freed Stucky, who lives in Southeast and said he feels he was stopped “because I’m black.”

"Just because he's black, doesn't mean he's here to rob a house," Westby says in the video, which was filmed by Westby's housekeeper.

Stucky was released by the police who said they stopped him because he was carrying bags and the burglary had just been called in.

District police spokesperson Gwendolyn Crump told the Post “there’s no misconduct by the officer in that video.”

What is most interesting about the encounter, according to the Post's Clinton Yates, is how confidently Westby behaves toward the officers and how much leeway they give her during the incident.

"The level of comfort with which she communicates with the officers due to her knowledge of the law and lack of fear of retribution offers a lesson about how the intersection of race, class and privilege can impact the interactions between police officers and some residents," Yates writes.

"Westby proceeds to chastise the officer for harassing Stucky, and tells them they need to leave. She’s pointing her fingers and gesturing toward the car window. That’s the type of behavior that coming from many other people would be considered dangerous, threatening or violent in some way."

The story comes as police interactions with the public are under a bright spotlight.

On Wednesday, 18-year-old Vonderrit Myers Jr. was shot dead by a white off-duty police officer in St. Louis. Police said the officer, who has not been identified, was returning fire, but Myers' family says the black teen was unarmed.
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I encourage the police to roust blacks in my neighborhood. They know I've got their backs if there is trouble.
 
gwb-trading said:
"... we need to take proactive measures to boost the percentage of IT employees who are white, black, or hispanic - while culling the Asians from the workforce.
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Yeah, that's it. Replace the hard working, intelligent, and accomplished with ne'er-do-wells of other ethnicities. You know, so racial things are "fair".

Isn't that the kind of bilge thinking that got us into this mess??

Just think how football would be if their rules were "fair".

If a team has a white QB, a 1st down is "1st and 10"... but if a black QB, a 1st down would be "1st and 8". (More fair yet, "1st and 6".)
 
Here's the Wash Redskins hat:

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Here's the president of the Navajo Nation sitting with the owner of the Wash Redskins yesterday:

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dbphoenix said:
Michael Dunn was found guilty of first-degree murder in the killing of 17-year-old Jordan Davis in September, 2012 after an argument over loud music.

The jury took about 5 hours to reach a verdict on Wednesday.

A jury deadlocked in February over whether to convict him of killing Davis.

He was convicted on three counts of attempted murder for shooting at Davis' friends in the car.

Dunn testified at this month's trial as well as his last that he killed Davis in self-defense after the teen threatened him. He also said he thought Davis had a gun, but no weapon was ever found.

At a press conference after the verdict was read, Davis' father, Ron, told reporters,"We must do a better job of loving each other."

More from the Associated Press:

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A jury has found a Florida man guilty of first-degree murder for fatally shooting a teenager after an argument over loud music outside a Jacksonville convenience store.

The jury reached its verdict Wednesday after more than five hours of deliberations.

Prosecutors say Michael Dunn shot with intent to kill when he fired 10 times into an SUV carrying 17-year-old Jordan Davis and three of his friends in November 2012.

Dunn testified that he thought his life was in danger. Davis was from Marietta, Georgia.

Dunn was convicted previously of three counts of attempted second-degree murder in February and already faces at least 60 years in prison.

The jury in the first trial deadlocked on the first-degree murder count, which led prosecutors to retry him in this case.​

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Florida man sentenced to life plus 90 years in rap music murder

By Susan Cooper Eastman

JACKSONVILLE Fla. (Reuters) - Michael Dunn, a middle-aged white man, was sentenced to life in prison without parole, plus 90 years, by a Florida judge on Friday for killing an unarmed black teenager in an argument over loud rap music.

Dunn, 47, a software engineer, testified at his murder trial last month he thought he was defending himself from an armed threat when he fired 10 rounds at an SUV carrying four teens at a Jacksonville gas station parking lot, killing Jordan Davis, 17, in November 2012.

Under Florida law, first-degree murder is punishable by life in prison without parole. Prosecutors waived the death penalty before trial.

Judge Russell Healey gave Dunn the maximum 90 additional years for earlier convictions on three counts of attempted murder of the other teens, none of whom were injured, to be served consecutively.

On a fourth charge of shooting a deadly missile into an occupied vehicle, Dunn received 15 years to be served concurrently.

The Dunn case drew comparisons to that of George Zimmerman, who was acquitted of murder in Florida last year in the shooting of Trayvon Martin, another unarmed black 17-year-old. Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer, said he fired in self-defense.

In an emotional statement, Davis' mother told the court she forgave Dunn in order to move on with her life.

"I choose to forgive you, Mr. Dunn, for taking my son's life," she said. "Anger and bitterness will not honor my son's life. I walk in freedom, knowing the Lord's justice has been served."

In a statement before the sentence was read Dunn expressed his regret to the Davis family, saying he was sorry for the their loss.

"If I could roll back time and do things differently, I would," he said. Even though he said he acted in fear for his life and did what he thought he had to do, "I am mortified that I took a life, whether it was justified or not,” he added.

On the night of the murder, Dunn and Davis exchanged words before the shooting about the loud music coming from the SUV.

The jury, composed of 10 whites and two blacks, took less than five hours to reach a verdict. In a previous trial in February, a jury deadlocked after deliberating the murder charge in Davis' death for four days, but convicted Dunn on three counts of attempted murder for firing at the other teenagers in the vehicle.
 
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