Black People: You may not succeed on Wall Street but you sure can handle a ball!
NYTimes’ bloggers go ape crap over Black Enterprise’s current cover story “75 Most Powerful Blacks on Wall Street.” The Black Enterprise article tackles a familiar topic to most on this site–examinig the strides/setbacks African Americans have made in the corporate world. As most know, the question of economic empowerment still looms large for most Black folk. Yet, equal opportunity comments (yes, even Black people) go a little something like this:
- It is not enough to decry the shortage of Blacks in top level jobs. That may be the case, but are qualified applicants really being passed over? I have seen no reports indicating this. As a black woman and a recruiter I can tell you that I review a depressingly small candidate pool of minorities for most positions advertised by my firm. It has led me to believe that they just aren’t there in large numbers and the makeup of most firms’ management teams seems to lend credence to this. Educated and accomplished blacks where are you? You need to start showing up - we’re stuck at bemoaning your absence - account for yourselves.
- I am sick and tired of the incessant complaining by all minorities about the lack of representation in government, corporate america, etc., etc. It’s important to recognise that the opportunities have been created and it’s then left largely to the population of minorities to seek to take advantage of those opportunities. Stop your bloody complaining and work to earn that place.
- Well, if I was an African American I would be worried. While the African-Americans sit around bickering and complaining about lack of recognition, the Asians and Latinos in business are going to continue climbing business ladders without screaming “Look at me I’m climbing!”.
- When is the article on the lack of diversity, subtitled “The Discrimination against Asians in the NBA and the NFL,” coming out? I am also still waiting for the article on “The Highly Qualified Asian Students Who Do Not Get into Elite Schools so that Utterly Unprepared and Unqualified Affirmative Action Students Can Steal Their Rightful Places, which Is Futile since They Never Graduate Anyway.”
