Successful Black investor and business owner calls DEI a "participation trophy" wants more

[jilla82]

What he says in this tweet makes much more sense than these DEI programs

I wish we gave Black men like this a platform instead of these professional students and protestors.
We need more people that are actually in the field and see whats needed

 

[Problematic Pat]

DEI is a bunch of bullshyt to mainly prop up white women.

 

[OperationNumbNutts]

DEI is a bunch of bullshyt to mainly prop up white women.

It's like many thinks. Blacks start off being the fast and other groups will reap the benefits once it's acceptable.

 

[Reflected]

DEI is a bunch of bullshyt to mainly prop up white women.

You think people had bad intentions with DEI?

 

[Uachet]

You think people had bad intentions with DEI?

White women benefit most from affirmative action. So why do they oppose it?

People associate affirmative action with ending discrimination against people of color. But women are the greatest beneficiaries, scholars say.

www.usatoday.com

Who Benefits From Diversity And Inclusion Efforts?

With all the financial investment, time and attention put into advancing diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in corporations, it is crucial to understand who benefit...

www.forbes.com

"According to another McKinsey study, white women hold nearly 19% of all C-suite positions, while racial and ethnic minority women only hold 4%. Overall, white women have benefited disproportionally from corporate DEI efforts."

 

[Professor Emeritus]

My pipe dream is a private-sector-funded Rich Dad & Uncle program that provides seed capital and internships to kids that don’t have the wealth of opportunities provided by, well rich dads and uncles. WYA @elonmusk

We will never close the racial wealth gap — a product of institutional racism itself — by handing out glorified participation trophies. You close it by leveling the playing field with legitimate access to education and capital.

at thinking that wealthy white billionaires are going to personally close the racial wealth gap with "legitimate access to education and capital."



He's partially right that things like Affirmative Action and DEI are not the solution. They're bandaids, meant to help a little in certain sectors while massive systemic gaps exist. But the real solutions are addressing residential access on a LARGE scale, addressing educational access on a LARGE scale, fixing the justice system on a LARGE scale, and addressing wealth on a LARGE scale. Not begging the billionaires who definitely wish to perpetuate the system for little handouts.

He tagged Elon Musk who literally argues that Black people are intellectually inferior and shouldn't have important jobs, and he thinks THAT racist is going to solve the wealth gap?

 

[Problematic Pat]

You think people had bad intentions with DEI?

Black people get executive positions specifically Chief Executive of Diversity but those positions hold zero power. But they give ones that do to white women i.e Chief Financial Officer, Chief Technology Officer, Vice president, etc.

 

[Uachet]

Too many of our people are looking for and begging for solutions from the very ones who are perfectly fine with the 'status quo'. You can't expect those who want you in the position you are in, to invest into getting you out of that position. It makes no logical sense to think that will happen.

 

[Problematic Pat]

Only 10 Black CEOs running a fortune 500 company.

 

[jay83]

Colin powell before he passed away straight up said the only reason he got to his position was because of affirmative action.

 

[Kornball The Conqueror]

people not in position to hire anybody are the experts

 

[The_Sheff]

Why is it always all or nothing. Most people aren’t equipped to be CEOs. That doesn’t mean someone couldn’t make a great financial analyst if given the opportunity.

The thing that pisses me off about a lot of black folks who move up the ladder is they use all the benefits things like DEI and affirmative action provided but then they wanna hee haw with the whites and pretend like they didnt need any help at all to get where they are. fukk them.

 

[Problematic Pat]

people not in position to hire anybody are the experts

Only 1.6% of Black women work in c-suite

 

[UpAndComing]

DEI is a bunch of bullshyt to mainly prop up white women.

Affirmative Action in general props up White Women

I'm always confused whenever Black people always want to defend and protect it

 

[Hoshi_Toshi]

I worked at a super liberal place and they created all those DEI positions and brought in consultants to do studies and talk to black people. Then they came back with a whole DEI task force made up of white women smh

Then I worked for another place that loved to say they were a minority owned company so they could get government contracts. What do you think minority owned meant in this case? You guessed it, a white woman.

Sucking up all the good contracts under the guise of being “minority owned”. They need to rework the definition of that shyt.