Good Lord... he's never been a REAL engineer a day in his life!
His entire "work" career is 6 years at IBM as a "product manager", 1.5 years as a "Software Director" and the remaining 25+ years of his career is in diversity outreach.
His only "certifications" are for a "diversity professional" which he only got right after the Summer of Love.
His engineering and observational skills are SO good that, as a 50+ year old guy wearing a college jacket and some guy makes tries to make small talk about his jersey being a college basketball one - he immediately thinks the guy is calling him a basketball coach because of his color.
Why not gently correct the "seat mate" and say proudly "no no, i'm the newly annointed diversity political commissar" I mean... you're proud of your work in promoting racism, right?
Dude literally just said "basketball?" and the prick immediately invented a lynching story in his head. God forbid you try to find out if a stranger in a college shirt likes basketball just after (or during if he's been holding that grudge for a while) march madness.
Every nigger is a landmine. Every nigger is at best a possible lawsuit that will utterly ruin your life with them screaming "muh racist". Every nigger is a possible chimpout that if you defend yourself will result in, at best, life in prison. Just by being in the same physical space as a nigger your life, in aggregate, is shortened. You trying to get away from a nigger is enough to set one off. The only security with niggers is obscurity. Hope they NEVER notice you. As soon as one notices you, they will alert the horde. At that point your only option is to maximize your KDR because YOUR LIFE IS OVER.
Liberal juries and affirmative action REWARD them for keeping a diary and planning to sue from the day he passed the interview or just ticks the diversity boxes
What a tough life he must have. I’m sure this has never happened to anyone ever. I’m a tall guy and when I was younger people asked if I played basketball.
Exactly. He fits the profile of someone who has been taught to see racism in his bowl of cereal every morning. So naturally DEI is what he gravitates towards
Ha! I had a buddy in the Air Force who was from rural TN and fit that stereotype. We became friends because he heard me listening to Hank Sr and asked me how much I knew about his music
No. My favorite sport is baseball. I played up until high school. My dream was to at least make it yo the minors and see what I could do from there. Still watch baseball and have been collecting baseball cards since childhood
Just do whatever non-baseball job you do for the baseball team. If you're an accountant, be an accountant for the nearest MILB affiliate. After a few years of hard work you can move up and maybe crunch numbers in the show.
I actually learned about that fairly recently on the show Mike Rowe does called story behind the story. In the Air Force I read about his military career along with the other 4 star generals in WW2.
I liked to read biographies of US Presidents during my own time in middle school, which is how I knew that tidbit.
There was another story of how Eisenhower shared his baseball dream with a childhood friend who wanted to be President. Amusingly, neither of them got their wish.
What I’m thinking. Reminds me of the story where the black woman cried racism at Walmart because someone assumed she worked there and asked for help. Most likely she was wearing a shirt that kinda looked like a Walmart shirt. Has happened to me and countless other people.
I am the Chief Inclusion Officer and Senior Vice Provost at Northeastern University. For seven years, I served as the Executive Director of the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE). I’m also author of “Working Smarter, Not Just Harder: Three Sensible Strategies for Succeeding in College…and Life,” and co-founder of the 50k Coalition and The Black IDEA Coalition. Prior to joining NSBE, I was the Senior Vice President of Academic Programs and Strategic Initiatives at UNCF, one of the nation’s largest educational support non-profits in the country, and former Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education and Director of Engineering Outreach Programs at MIT. I enjoy speaking, writing and advocating for increasing college access and opportunity for underrepresented and underserved students, and about diversity and inclusion. My research has focused on successful African-American male students, high-achieving African American and Chicano high school students, and my interests continue to be in getting more of these students into the sciences, engineering, technology and mathematics (STEM) fields. I am also passionate about fostering diversity, equity and inclusion. As co-founder of The Black IDEA Coalition, I work to ensure that everyone can thrive in inclusive workplaces, campuses and communities.
Has he ever engineered anything? I mean I never got my PE and I don't design bridges, but the menial work I do that I call engineering is certainly a lot more complicated and engineer-like than this guy's job. An education in political science would have been more on point for that. I suppose I do have far less prestigious titles, along with far less respect for prestigious titles.
Let's for some reason pretend this race commissar's story is actually true, and that SeatMate assumed he's in basketball because he's black and not because of his stupid jersey. Could it be that people have a stereotype of basketball teams being 95% black? Why is that? Black man, are you willing to impose diversity and inclusion policies to enforce equity on the basketball court and destroy those unfounded prejudices? No? Then shut up about blackity black shit, Basketball American. I don't care about any of your grievances, let alone imagined ones.
I know as if there isn't an article on buzzfeed within the past weeks that reads, "WHITE PEOPLE NEVER SEASON THEIR FOOD." And if you take offense to these frank racial conversations you have white fragility.
Maybe dude wanted to come up with a reason a grown up is wearing sportswear to a prestigious university, that isn't some douchey way to say "I'm super smart, notice me, I went to MIT?"
I don't believe that the initial exchange even happened, because if it had he surely would have posted a picture of the offender.
And if some sort of exchange did happen, I don't believe the recounting of the person who's job depends on the existence of racism, nor do I believe that any of these communist czars would be honest about anything.
Furthermore, if the account is 100% accurate and some guy said "Basketball?" to him, I don't care. Hell, if the guy said, "oh wow, you're a nigger in a sports jacket, you must be part of the basketball team!" I still don't care.
It was probably a fellow negro who knows most of the blacks got in famous schools through sports, the affirmative action "engineer" felt indignant being compared to sportsball monkeys
I hope he pulls this shit with an actual engineer someday. It would be apparent that he was a useless diversity hire after talking to him for 30 seconds.
I imagine this must be the same as a white person who gets called a racist because they exist, and so do people that don't share their skin color. And that white person had the audacity to do that in a public space.
I'll go ahead and wait for the apologies to come pouring in over every time that has happened.
I'm not sure in which world the reply "No. Engineering" is an appropriate one to the question "Basketball?" but to each their own I guess.
For all we know this seat mate may have been using a code phrase or cipher to try and identify a fellow operative for aviation safety or to pass along important information for national security.
I heard of a guy once who got a Peruvian onlunk through such tomfoolery.
Good Lord... he's never been a REAL engineer a day in his life!
His entire "work" career is 6 years at IBM as a "product manager", 1.5 years as a "Software Director" and the remaining 25+ years of his career is in diversity outreach.
His only "certifications" are for a "diversity professional" which he only got right after the Summer of Love.
His engineering and observational skills are SO good that, as a 50+ year old guy wearing a college jacket and some guy makes tries to make small talk about his jersey being a college basketball one - he immediately thinks the guy is calling him a basketball coach because of his color.
Why not gently correct the "seat mate" and say proudly "no no, i'm the newly annointed diversity political commissar" I mean... you're proud of your work in promoting racism, right?
Dude literally just said "basketball?" and the prick immediately invented a lynching story in his head. God forbid you try to find out if a stranger in a college shirt likes basketball just after (or during if he's been holding that grudge for a while) march madness.
He probably even invented the guy saying basketball.
Yo black man. You play basketball because you're black, right?
That was definitely the genesis of the conversation.
"...and everyone clapped!"
Just occurred to me that this is just another variation of “It’s MA’AM!”
Every nigger is a landmine. Every nigger is at best a possible lawsuit that will utterly ruin your life with them screaming "muh racist". Every nigger is a possible chimpout that if you defend yourself will result in, at best, life in prison. Just by being in the same physical space as a nigger your life, in aggregate, is shortened. You trying to get away from a nigger is enough to set one off. The only security with niggers is obscurity. Hope they NEVER notice you. As soon as one notices you, they will alert the horde. At that point your only option is to maximize your KDR because YOUR LIFE IS OVER.
-- Scott Adams
Liberal juries and affirmative action REWARD them for keeping a diary and planning to sue from the day he
passed the interview orjust ticks the diversity boxesWhat a tough life he must have. I’m sure this has never happened to anyone ever. I’m a tall guy and when I was younger people asked if I played basketball.
They ask tall white kids that too, just no one makes a big deal out of it.
Exactly. He fits the profile of someone who has been taught to see racism in his bowl of cereal every morning. So naturally DEI is what he gravitates towards
To be fair, with AlphA-Bits and patience you can arrange racial slurs. On the other other hand you can make slurs that aren't racial.
I forgot about that. Also, milk is white
And don't you forget it, boy.
Spits in stereotypical white ruralite in a dirty wife beater
Ha! I had a buddy in the Air Force who was from rural TN and fit that stereotype. We became friends because he heard me listening to Hank Sr and asked me how much I knew about his music
Did you ever see that SNL Black Jeopardy skit with Tom Hanks?
Who knew tall people dealt with such micro-aggressions?
Well, do you?
No. My favorite sport is baseball. I played up until high school. My dream was to at least make it yo the minors and see what I could do from there. Still watch baseball and have been collecting baseball cards since childhood
Just do whatever non-baseball job you do for the baseball team. If you're an accountant, be an accountant for the nearest MILB affiliate. After a few years of hard work you can move up and maybe crunch numbers in the show.
Would be nice.
Interestingly enough, Eisenhower also wanted to play baseball. Instead, his consolation prize was becoming a 5-star general and POTUS.
I actually learned about that fairly recently on the show Mike Rowe does called story behind the story. In the Air Force I read about his military career along with the other 4 star generals in WW2.
I liked to read biographies of US Presidents during my own time in middle school, which is how I knew that tidbit.
There was another story of how Eisenhower shared his baseball dream with a childhood friend who wanted to be President. Amusingly, neither of them got their wish.
He's in delta comfort. Maybe he's tall.
What I’m thinking. Reminds me of the story where the black woman cried racism at Walmart because someone assumed she worked there and asked for help. Most likely she was wearing a shirt that kinda looked like a Walmart shirt. Has happened to me and countless other people.
From his own website:
“Engineering”…
Has he ever engineered anything? I mean I never got my PE and I don't design bridges, but the menial work I do that I call engineering is certainly a lot more complicated and engineer-like than this guy's job. An education in political science would have been more on point for that. I suppose I do have far less prestigious titles, along with far less respect for prestigious titles.
lol yeah
I also liken myself to the fields that other people at my school have studied. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go and pull a few teeth.
I know it's under/served but come on un/deserved is so beautiful right there
Let's for some reason pretend this race commissar's story is actually true, and that SeatMate assumed he's in basketball because he's black and not because of his stupid jersey. Could it be that people have a stereotype of basketball teams being 95% black? Why is that? Black man, are you willing to impose diversity and inclusion policies to enforce equity on the basketball court and destroy those unfounded prejudices? No? Then shut up about blackity black shit, Basketball American. I don't care about any of your grievances, let alone imagined ones.
I know as if there isn't an article on buzzfeed within the past weeks that reads, "WHITE PEOPLE NEVER SEASON THEIR FOOD." And if you take offense to these frank racial conversations you have white fragility.
Maybe dude wanted to come up with a reason a grown up is wearing sportswear to a prestigious university, that isn't some douchey way to say "I'm super smart, notice me, I went to MIT?"
I don't believe that the initial exchange even happened, because if it had he surely would have posted a picture of the offender.
And if some sort of exchange did happen, I don't believe the recounting of the person who's job depends on the existence of racism, nor do I believe that any of these communist czars would be honest about anything.
Furthermore, if the account is 100% accurate and some guy said "Basketball?" to him, I don't care. Hell, if the guy said, "oh wow, you're a nigger in a sports jacket, you must be part of the basketball team!" I still don't care.
It was probably a fellow negro who knows most of the blacks got in famous schools through sports, the affirmative action "engineer" felt indignant being compared to sportsball monkeys
If you wanna laugh image search MIT basketball
Gotta say dude's selfie game is strong. He's perfectly framed
I hope he pulls this shit with an actual engineer someday. It would be apparent that he was a useless diversity hire after talking to him for 30 seconds.
Diversity-hire gets mad someone assumes the most realistic scenario where he would have gotten his position on merit.
Clown World.
I imagine this must be the same as a white person who gets called a racist because they exist, and so do people that don't share their skin color. And that white person had the audacity to do that in a public space.
I'll go ahead and wait for the apologies to come pouring in over every time that has happened.
I'm not sure in which world the reply "No. Engineering" is an appropriate one to the question "Basketball?" but to each their own I guess.
For all we know this seat mate may have been using a code phrase or cipher to try and identify a fellow operative for aviation safety or to pass along important information for national security.
I heard of a guy once who got a Peruvian onlunk through such tomfoolery.
And what major accomplishment did you make for MIT sir?
Sir you are wearing a track suit. Also you're a nigger.