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So the boss has two job applications. One submitted by DeShon Williams and the other by James Smith. The two are similar, but not exactly the same. Both are qualified.

Statistically speaking, in 2024, one of these people is much more likely to get an interview. Study after study shows this to be true.

Even if both are interviewed, the boss is far more likely, all things being somewhat equal, to hire the applicant who looks like them, and shares his/her cultural background.

DeShon might be the best at the actual job, but because of racial and cultural differences many employers may not take the time to find out.

In this case, DEI training helps an employer discover their own bias and actually find the best person for the job, may it be James, or DeShon. No quota, just a recognition that bias often plays a disproportional role in the hiring process and teaches strategies to over come it.

Its not racial because we all have bias. A black executive can benefit as well.

Commented: Sunday, July 21st, 2024 @ 11:14 pm By: Big Bob

Match the words with an action:
I judge people based on the content of their character :: __.

You've said the words, in practice, how you you do that.? What does it look like?

Commented: Sunday, July 21st, 2024 @ 5:24 pm By: Big Bob

Bob needs to define "we". Bob does not speak for me.

Commented: Sunday, July 21st, 2024 @ 10:57 am By: Van Zant

The Nation of Islam shot Malcolm X, black radicals. Three of them shot Malcolm X. a former leader of the Nation of Islam who had broken away and formed his own radical black Muslim group. When Bobbie uses the first person plural "we" as to who shot Malcolm X, is he telling us he is a black Muslim? Who knew? Maybe that explains why he makes excuses for Hamas. Malcolm X's goal was separate white and black societies, unlike Dr. King who wanted an integrated society.

Bobbie may have a "collective racist past" since he is clearly a Democrat, the party which brought Jim Crow to North Carolina and other states at the turn of the 20th century. Those of us who are Republican, however, can be proud that OUR party voted unanimously AGAINST the Democrat Jim Crow laws when they passed the NC legislature and opposed them in other states as well.

Commented: Sunday, July 21st, 2024 @ 9:28 am By: John Steed

Maybe because some are stationed in parts of the world where the high was 130 and the low night time temp was 102. - might have something to do with it

Commented: Saturday, July 20th, 2024 @ 7:24 pm By: Big Bob

We just saw in Butler, PA how DEI has hollowed out the Secret Service. It is dangerous to our national security to have the military and secret service politically corrupted by DEI ideology.

Commented: Saturday, July 20th, 2024 @ 7:51 pm By: Rino Hunter

Bob doesn’t understand a lot of things. I would assume him to be democrat because of his utter lack of understanding and his virtue signaling way of life.

I wonder does he know it was his chosen party that were the ones who created and advocated for segregation and Jim Crow?

Take a gander at the logo for a democrat being a donkey. It seems you have to be a jackass to be one.

Commented: Saturday, July 20th, 2024 @ 4:08 pm By: Will Simmons

Democrats ARE a cult. No presidential primary debates? That's okay with the lemmings in the cult. Changing the order of primaries to help Biden? That okay with the lemmings in the cult. Keeping bona fide primary challengers to Biden like RFK. Jr. off the ballot and giving Democrat primary voters a Soviet style ballot with no opponents to Biden on it? That's okay with the lemmings in the cult. Cutting the average party voter our to change candidates at the last minute, chosen by the insiders? That's okay with the lemmings in the cult. If the party bosses want it, the lemmings go right along with it.

The Democrats have snuffed out their own internal party democracy, and are now a threat to do the same thing to the country.

Commented: Saturday, July 20th, 2024 @ 2:48 pm By: Conservative Voter

I'm sorry folks like BB grew up in such a mixed-up environment. I'm thankful I didn't grow up in a racist household.

Commented: Saturday, July 20th, 2024 @ 1:25 pm By: Van Zant

We love JB, but democrats aren't in a cult. The policy is more important than the the man.

Commented: Saturday, July 20th, 2024 @ 11:05 am By: Big Bob

Well, NO, Little Bobbie. My shirt says "Judge people by the content of their character, not the color of their skin." I suspect your t-shirt carries a picture of either Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Castro, or Mao or perhaps just a plain hammer and sickle. Or maybe, it is a current day Marxist insurrectionist group like ANTIFA or BLM.

Commented: Saturday, July 20th, 2024 @ 8:04 am By: Conservative Voter

A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: but knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth.

Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest not in him the lips of knowledge.

There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

Commented: Friday, July 19th, 2024 @ 11:30 pm By: Will Simmons