The Backlash Over Sams Club CEO Diversity Comments
An interesting read about the reaction to Sam's Club CEO Rosalind Brewer and the fallout from her saying in an interview how she actively promotes diversity. I thought it was a good read and parallels many reactions that I've seen - including here at DU.
Something in the way Sam’s Club CEO Rosalind Brewer said it, or a verb or two by the way she threw it, made a bunch of white people run scared into a corner. Correctly miffed by the absence of any female or “of color” representation at a recent negotiating table, Brewer went brave and did something rare in corporate America these days: She called white dudes out about it.
“My executive team is very diverse, and I make that a priority. I demand it within my team,” Brewer shared with CNN during a Monday interview regarding diversity. “Just today we met with a supplier, and the entire other side of the table was all Caucasian males. That was interesting.”
More than “interesting.” What she carefully didn’t say was that it’s the last-stand normalcy of how America conducts way too much of its business. It’s no secret the vast majority of corporate organizations seeking growth in the highly diverse 21st-century marketplace can’t break out of racially perverse 19th-century traditions.
Yet, it was no surprise when a special breed of rise-up white digital activists exploded into calls for Brewer’s head soon after those comments went live. Not an isolated incident, and surely not the last, the brouhaha is merely the latest in a nauseating trend of mythical white victimology. Rather than a sensible exploration of Brewer’s point, the country club went ballistic, perhaps its buttons pushed to the outer limits of what white privilege could absorb.
We can’t yet verify exactly what star system they live in. But back on planet Earth, we’re more than happy to provide any number of prerequisite social-ladder courses on universal white male dominance in the workplace. There’s nothing that Brewer’s detractors have to worry about: White people, especially white guys, run the corporate top. Our own collective shrug and mumbles of resignation speak to their ubiquitous presence.
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Rely on the garbled charges of “racism” against Brewer and you’d get the impression that black CEOs have it so good, they can just publicly diss entire segments of a product-buying population. You know, something white people in leadership do about as frequently as they play golf. But it’s not like RedState, TeaParty.org or legions of other conservative bloggers have spilled inked outrage over Donald Trump, easily the gold standard for white male business moguls stuck in bigot mode (probably because they’re so busy defending him). Revlon’s white CEO was outed earlier this year for allegedly nasty remarks about blacks and Jews, and the list goes on and on. Where were these guys then?
Not that we’d be expecting much from these cats in the first place, the same band of rhetorical misfits who regularly give President Barack Obama heartburn just for sneezing. The manufactured backlash against Brewer is merely one of many assaults from a mobilized populist right infecting political discourse here and in Europe, a “fearmonger[ing]” that a recently spot-on Economist editorial warns will “pose a serious threat to the openness and tolerance Western societies take for granted.”
If architects of neo-white rage aren’t code-blasting working- to middle-class white voters with apocalyptic images of a demographic end, they’re pushing an ideology of cultural impatience. Unable to cope with the ramifications of minority status by 2050, white ideologues are digging in their heels for a fresh round of racial knuckle-up. Brewer may have unwittingly put herself on the front line.
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You are clearly promoting violence!!!!!
I'm not a member, but I'd buy one.
If an OP posts a thread of opinion, clearly they are trying to steer things a certain direction and commenters should respect that.
In this case the OP posted an article, with no stated intent beyond just posting it.
Am I not free to comment on that article (or the general situation it describes) in any way I see fit?
It seems like DUers want everyone to absorb the article and have the exact same reaction to it, as if none of us have our own brains and are capable of thinking for ourselves, and if one gets out of lockstep with how DUers think she/he should interpret information, she/he is "hijacking."
If I'm wrong and it's understood that we're all going to read an article and thinking the EXACT same thing about it, what's even the point of posting it here for comments?? 
She pointed out a daily reality for professional non-white males in this country and ruffled feathers.
To which I say 
