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"Diversity in Action"

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

Honestly, this hardly matters. Which is to say, no one cares.

4/28/09, 8:55 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

This is actually one of the more benevolent outcomes under AA: black employees who would otherwise be in hopelessly over their heads get shunted into these "stand there and be black" positions where they can't screw up anything. Of course, in yet another example of unintended consequences and the road to hell, blacks who really do have the chops get shunted into these slots as well.

--Senor Doug

4/28/09, 9:05 PM

Anonymous robert61 said...

The glorious coda to Mrs Obama's make-work history is that her position was eliminated after she left.

Despicable.

And her man-arms are ugly, too.

4/28/09, 10:11 PM

Anonymous Ross said...

"The existence of the Diversity Racket makes all this easier because it's obviously unimportant whether they accomplish anything. ".

Michelle Obama's post was so unimportant that as soon as she left the role after her husband became president the hospital simply abolished the post, which previously they had considered so important that it merited a massive salary, even when Michelle took a year off to campaign for her husband.

http://www.cdobs.com/archive/our-columns/michelle-obamas-job-eliminated,2486

4/28/09, 11:41 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Why is this sort of a scandal, but the First Lady having the equivalent make-work diversity racket job at the U of Chicago Hospitals, and getting paid $117k when her husband was chairman of the Illinois Senate Health and Human Services Committee and then getting her salary more than doubled when her husband got elected to the U.S. Senate, not a scandal?"

Because Obama is the liberal/black establishment's ultimate FU to whitey. So he SHALL NOT be tainted. Mandela fulfils the same role in South Africa, though most people down there know his criminal background and that his "Mandela Children's Fund" is his private till used to finance the lavish overseas education of his siblings and extended family. Mugabe had the same role in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe, only he started misbehaving too obviously so the establishment had to dump him, i.e. withdraw all those phoney honorary doctorates, knighthoods and peace awards and lavish funds.

As for the NY Councilman and his sister, to be fair this sort of thing also routinely happens in Europe and I guess in the US amongst whites.

4/28/09, 11:50 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

elsewhere in the NY Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/29/education/29scores.html?hp

4/29/09, 12:37 AM

Anonymous headache said...

Maybe it's not illegal, but isn't it a little unseemly? Especially since Mr. Obama carefully positioned Mrs. Obama as this home-and-children-first Earth Mother during the campaign, so how in the world can she be said to have "earned" $317k in the year after his election to the Senate?

Had Mrs. Obama been white the MSM would have plastered the hypocrisy about her 317k racket...er...PR job all over the tabloids, or NYT-type toilet papers. We are living in a time where having a darker skin means you are held to lower standards and given several free passes, publicly. It’s unfair and stupid but it’s the way it is. WHO decides what is a scandal or not? That's the real question.

4/29/09, 1:16 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

This just looks to me like politicians doing what they always do.

You lived in Chicago, Steve, so you ought to know what I mean. It's amazing how people related to the Daleys, the Mells, the Duffs, and to Alderman Ed Burke wind up in jobs they aren't qualified for and where they don't seem to do too much. (Justice Ann Burke, of the Illinois Supreme Court, being a good case in point.)

In Chicago, this used to be a mostly white activity (with Big Bill Dawson and his underlings being the exception) until Harold Washington came into office, at which point the political makeup of the city started reflecting the population in general, and you suddenly had a lot of black officials doing the same things white ones did-except, as Mike Royko once noted, they didn't have as much experience at stealing, so the Feds caught them much more often.

I suppose this is diversity in action in that when you didn't have blacks in office, you didn't have thieving black politicians-only white ones.

Planetary Archon Mouse

4/29/09, 3:29 AM

Anonymous Jerry said...

I'm a U of Chicago alum, and whenever they hit me up for money, I reply with an indignant letter about how much they've paid Michelle Obama... zip from me when they have money to throw around like that.

4/29/09, 4:46 AM

Anonymous Roger Chaillet said...

"Negros in Heaven."

That's what my former brother-in-law called NIH (National Institutes of Health) in D.C. He is a research scientist - PhD - with the USDA and FDA.

Reminds me of Condoleeza Rice.

Colin Powell.

Former Secretary of Education Rod Paige.

The woman who outed Joe the Plumber.

And millions and millions of others.

They have sweet sinecures, complain frequently about trivial BS, and get paid handsomely for their time.

4/29/09, 5:36 AM

Blogger Anthony said...

P.A.M. brings up an important point; we see the same thing here in California a lot, too.

I suspect that political cronyist nepotism will be more common among blacks, though, because the talent pool is smaller even proportional to the population, and because intelligence seems to run in families.

(You hear about the cases where one guy/gal rises well above the rest of his family, because that's a more interesting story than "city councilman's whole family moderately accomplished professionals". And it does happen the first way - I've seen it in person. But that's not the way to bet.)

4/29/09, 6:19 AM

Anonymous rightsaidfred said...

Interesting that New York payed for someone from Atlanta to commute and fill this office...

4/29/09, 6:47 AM

Blogger Truth said...

"And her man-arms are ugly, too."

More erudite, intellectual discourse brought to you by the self-proclaimed high-IQ posters at isteve.blogspot.com!

4/29/09, 7:13 AM

Anonymous Mr. Anon said...

The difference between the diversity racket and a criminal racket (like the old Chicago Outfit) is that criminal rackets at least deliver some kind of product (numbers payouts, drugs, booze, prostitutes, etc.). The diversity racket however is a black hole of state-sponsored extortion - money goes in, nothing comes out.

4/29/09, 8:59 AM

Anonymous Steiner said...

More attention needs to be paid to the effects of AA on organizations that design, manufacture and sell products in open marketplaces, like the USA, against international competitors. I'm referring to the American auto industry here, you know, the one that's in the process of utter collapse. Every time I see a recent picture of an American auto production line, woman and blacks figure prominently. Did these individuals get their jobs because they were the best qualified, on the basis of mechanical aptitude? We all know the answer to that one.

You think these are "square-peg, square-hole" jobs, so it doesn't matter? That's not what they think in Tokyo and Munich. They expect their assembly-line workers to show an interest in the product, suggest a better way and contribute to efficiency and quality. How many American women and blacks can do that on a production line, how many of them spent their formative years tinkering with machinery, learning how the thing works?

The rot began to set in during the late 60s, with demands for preferential hiring of blacks. You can read about it in John DeLorean's book, "On A Clear Day You Can See General Motors". That book reads like prophecy today.

4/29/09, 10:12 AM

Anonymous Svigor said...

City regulations prohibit elected officials from using their positions to obtain financial gain or personal advantage for themselves or close family members. ...Apropos of I-don't-know, but this strikes me as a bit of legislation that has "disparate impact" written all over it.

4/29/09, 10:12 AM

Blogger Ronduck said...

How long will it take for Wall Street to understand that diversity leads to lower profits?

4/29/09, 12:35 PM

Anonymous Svigor said...

More erudite, intellectual discourse brought to you by the self-proclaimed high-IQ posters at isteve.blogspot.com!Don't worry, that was exposed as a total sham the day you showed up.

4/29/09, 4:03 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Complaining about MO's arms seems petty and pointless, I dont find her unattractive, though I dont think she or her hubby should be anywhere near the government.

4/29/09, 6:01 PM

Anonymous Roger Chaillet said...

Steiner should look into Ford Motor's meltdown under Jacques Nasser.

Nasser was the Australian of Lebanese descent who damn near ruined Ford after former CEO Alex Trotman's tenure. Trotman had Ford earning over $22 billion in 1998. http://www.hbs.edu/leadership/database/leaders/alex_trotman.html Nasser came along, and had Ford diversify into junkyards and a host of other Mickey Mouse ventures. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Nasser

Rumor had it that Nasser also had a chip on his shoulder because his olive complexion. He held Australian citizenship because his family had immigrated to Australia while he was very young. http://www.answers.com/topic/jacques-nasser

As for the auto industry, Honda Auto was sued by the EEOC a number of years ago because urban blacks were allegedly underrepresented in its ranks. Anyone who views the accompanying map will realize how farcical this was. http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Anna+ohio&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&split=0&gl=us&ei=aAb5Sc2KMZOitgO4sKTBCg&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=image&resnum=1

Anna, Ohio is miles from the 'hood.

4/29/09, 7:08 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"The difference between the diversity racket and a criminal racket (like the old Chicago Outfit) is that criminal rackets at least deliver some kind of product (numbers payouts, drugs, booze, prostitutes, etc.)."You've never heard of the protection racket?

4/30/09, 6:02 AM

Anonymous David said...

Roger said

"of Lebanese descent"

Are you sure about that?

4/30/09, 9:33 AM

Anonymous David Davenport said...

"of Lebanese descent"

Are you sure about that?
Yep.

Nasser's also blamed for making Dearborn MI the most Muslim city in the US. Nasser is nominally Christian.

4/30/09, 3:46 PM

Anonymous bg said...

the news:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6211846.ece


the person behind the news:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baroness_Uddin

I bet the house wasn't in a vibrant and colorful neighbourhood...

5/4/09, 11:59 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

robert61: The glorious coda to Mrs Obama's make-work history is that her position was eliminated after she left.

Despicable...


Hey Steve - it's more than a year later now [May of 2010], but this make-work racial-spoils mess with Michelle is back in the news:

One of Obama's closest friends part of federal probe
BY DAVE McKINNEY, CHRIS FUSCO AND TIM NOVAK
May 9, 2010
suntimes.com

E-mails and other records of Dr. Eric Whitaker -- one of President Obama's best friends -- have been subpoenaed by a federal grand jury, the Chicago Sun-Times has learned.

The investigation involves "faith-based initiatives" and health-awareness campaigns funded by the Illinois Department of Public Health when Whitaker ran the agency for former Gov. Rod Blagojevich, according to copies of subpoenas obtained under the state's Freedom of Information Act.

Obama has said he recommended Whitaker for that job, which Whitaker landed in April 2003. The president's friend resigned in October 2007 to join Obama's wife, Michelle, as an executive at the University of Chicago Medical Center.

On Friday, Whitaker defended his work as the state's former top health official, saying he developed "new methods" to help "African-American and other minority communities" get better medical care...

5/9/10, 8:37 PM

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