Conspiracy Theories 101 Series

Part 10 of 12:

The Conspiracy Against

Visible Minorities

Part 2

 

Conspiracy Theories 101 Series Part 1 of 12: Introduction

Conspiracy Theories 101 Series Part 2 of 12: The Deep State

Conspiracy Theories 101 Series Part 3 of 12: Conspiracy Theorists - Part 1 and Part 2

Conspiracy Theories 101 Series Part 4 of 12: Pedophile Rings

Conspiracy Theories 101 Series Part 5 of 12: The Surveillance State

Conspiracy Theories 101 Series Part 6 of 12: The Banking State

Conspiracy Theories 101 Series Part 7 of 12: The Environmental Movement

Conspiracy Theories 101 Series Part 8 of 12: Breaking Up the Family Unit

Conspiracy Theories 101 Series Part 9 of 12: The Conspiracy Against Women - Part 1 and Part 2

Conspiracy Theories 101 Series Part 10 of 12: The Conspiracy Against Visible Minorities - Part 1 and Part 2 and Part 3 and Part 4

Conspiracy Theories 101 Series Part 11 of 12: The Media - Part 1 and Part 2

Conspiracy Theories 101 Series Part 12 of 12: The Stigma of Being a Conspiracy Theorist - Part 1 and Part 2

 

By: Shawn Alli
Posted: October 10, 2017
Updated: July 2, 2022

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*This article was updated in July 2022 because the original web pages were too large to be indexed by Google.

 

*Note: All individuals and organizations receive 3 full days of pre-publication notice.

 

*Note: By Jewish people/Jews, I'm referring to Israeli ethnicity, not Judaist believers.

 

*Note: The use of the terms genotype and phenotype is not in their proper scientific use, but it will suffice for mainstream science.

 

*Note: All dollar figures are in US dollars unless specified otherwise.

 

*Note: I use the term liberal trifecta to refer to liberals in general, liberal/progressive/neo-liberal media outlets, and Democrats.

 

Hollywood

Sports & Entertainment & Media & Industry

 

Hollywood

Hollywood has a long history as a racist institution with its movies. Even though slavery is officially abolished in the US in 1865, racist movies continue in the past and present:

 

Song of the South, 1946, Disney

Gone with the Wind, 1939, MGM

Mandingo, 1975, Paramount Pictures

Fantasia, 1940, Disney

The Littlest Rebel, 1935, 20th Century Fox

Goodbye Uncle Tom, 1971, Euro International Film & Cannon Film Distributors

Tarzan the Ape Man, 1932, MGM

Legend of Tarzan, 2016, Warner Brothers

Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1961, Paramount Pictures

The Mask of Fu Manchu, 1932, MGM

 

Allow me to be clear. Hollywood is a racist institution in the past and in the 21st century. Don't believe me? You should by the end of this subsection.

 

But Hollywood itself is an artificial construct. It has no intentionality to do or say anything on its own. When I use the term Hollywood I mean producers/studio executives in Hollywood. People who have the power to green light a film and make the final call on who gets the lead roles.

 

And with that, let's get into Hollywood movies.Take a look at any blockbuster movie in the last decade. By blockbuster I mean a movie with a production budget of over $100 million (USD). What you'll find 90% of the time is white actors/actresses playing the lead roles.

 

Sure, there will be visible minorities as supporting characters, but that's more of a token role to show that the studio isn't overtly racist in their casting (see Racism in Part II).

 

Sure, casting directors will put open ethnicity into the casting call, but 9/10 times the position will go to a white actor/actress Why? Because it's just for the sake of appearances.

 

The producer and studio executives don't want to seem overtly racist so they open the casting call and have all ethnicities audition for the role. But 9/10 times they've already decided that the role will go to a white actor/actress.

 

Aside from overt racism, in order to understand racism in the 21st century you need to understand perception vs. reality. It's not about the facts. It's about how the facts are perceived by the public/audiences/consumers.

 

But let's really get into it. How many black (African American) actors/actresses do you know of that have lead roles in Hollywood blockbusters or Hollywood movies in general on a regular basis? For black actresses, it's zero. Sure, you can argue that Zoe Saldana makes the cut, but aside from Guardians of the Galaxy (where she's green), she's not in regular or blockbuster Hollywood movies.

 

What about Halle Berry? Ah...yes the light skinned dilemma. This is a touchy issue for many visible minorities. But I'm not here to sugarcoat the issue for you. I'm here to present it to you and you can take it any way you want.

 

Black people with super dark black skin (like Don Cheadle) face a different level of racial discrimination than people with light brown skin (like Will Smith). People with light brown skin (like myself) face a different level of racial discrimination than dark skinned brown people (like people from Sri Lanka or Pakistan). Asians (Chinese, Japanese, Korean and such) face a different level of racial discrimination than brown or black people...and such.

 

The general rule of thumb is that the darker the skin, the higher the racial discrimination. The darker the skin, the lower amount of opportunities you'll receive today. But this is only true to a degree because racial discrimination isn't just about skin pigment/amount of melanin in your skin. It's also about culture and social status.

 

Hence, Mexicans, Asians, and Aboriginals (who all have white skin, sometimes even lighter than WE white people) face racial discrimination in all of their jobs. How many Mexican, Asian and Aboriginal actors/actresses do you know that have lead roles in regular/blockbuster Hollywood movies? I'd be surprised if you can think of five.

 

In terms of Asians, the only reason why you may think of Jet Li, Chow Yun Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Donnie Yen, and Ken Jeong is because of Jackie Chan. Chan is the initial pioneer who opens the Hollywood door for other Asian actors/actresses.

 

And if you read about Chan's life, Hollywood rejects him early on despite his great comedic and acrobat fighting skills. It's only due to super hard work and perseverance that Hollywood takes a chance on him with Rumble in the Bronx and the rest is history.

 

While I disagree with Chan's political views passionately, I respect what he's done for Asian actors/actresses and visible minorities as a whole in Hollywood. Sadly, in the larger scheme in 2017, his efforts don't amount to much in terms of Asian actors/actresses as lead roles in regular/blockbuster Hollywood movies. I recommend watching the Safe music video [40] by Dumbfoundead (Jonathan Park) in order to get a better understanding of the issue.

 

And what about black men in regular/blockbuster Hollywood movies? You have Denzel Washington, Will Smith, Jamie Foxx, and Samuel L. Jackson. And no, Kevin Hart and Idris Elba don't make the cut. Why not? Because they're on a hot streak. It happens from time to time in Hollywood. But it never lasts.

 

And no, Laurence Fishbourne, Morgan Freeman, Djimon Hounsou, Don Cheadle, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Terrence Howard, Martin Lawrence, Ice Cube, Morris Chestnut, Keith David, Tracy Morgan, Cuba Gooding Jr. and Taye Diggs don't make the cut either.

 

A few blockbusters in the past don't necessarily mean lead roles for regular/blockbuster movies in the future. It means regular supporting roles. Everyone has their role. Black people just have a lower role in the Hollywood food chain. You understand of course?

 

And just to put this into perspective, there are more white actors with the name Chris or Christian than black actors who get lead roles on a regular basis:

 

Chris Pine (Star Trek)

Chris Pratt (Guardians of the galaxy)

Chris Hemsworth (Thor)

Chris Klein (American Pie)

Chris Evans (Captain America)

Christian Bale (Batman)

Chris O Donell (Robin in old Batman movies)

Christian Slater (Will Scarlett in Robin Hood Prince of Thieves).

 

And just to keep you thinking, the Big 4 black Hollywood actors aren't getting any younger. In fact, if you look carefully at Hollywood and black actors, you'll see that there are no young black men being groomed to be A-list actors like the Big 4. The only black actor that has potential to be an A-list actor is Kevin Hart.

 

Liberal media outlets are very much aware of the lack of diversity lead roles. They usually don't use the term racism because they're politically correct p*ssies. But they still write copious amounts of articles on the issue. [41] [42] [43] [44] [45] [46] [47] [48] [49] [50] [51] [52]

 

However, those articles rarely translate into significant action from them or the public/consumers. All of those great liberal diversity ideologies don't translate into actions such as boycotting a movie or a slate of Marvel or DC superheroes movies for their lack of major visible minority superheroes. Why not? Various reasons.

 

One, going to the movies is a cultural/social activity. And two, liberals rarely put their ideologies into practice.

 

If you're against Wal-Mart's anti-union policies, are you going to stop shopping there if you're on a budget? No.

 

If you're against Monsanto and GMOs, are you going to stop buying cheap GMO produce if you're on a budget? No.

 

If you're against sexual violence, are you going to stop watching Game of Thrones and Westworld? No.

 

If you're against Hollywood's lack of visible minorities as major superheroes, are you going to stop watching superhero movies? No.

 

Why not? On the one hand you have your ideologies. On the other hand you have reality. Ones ideologies tend to fit into reality, not the other way around.

 

The liberal trifecta won't boycott movies with their lack of visible minorities as lead characters because the liberal trifecta believes that visible minorities can only be successfully governed by white people. They don't say that out loud, but that's what they believe.

 

And no, the leftover superheroes don't count (Blank Panther and War Machine). Is there going to be a black superman, an Asian batman, or an East Indian Spiderman anytime soon? No. Why not? Because Hollywood doesn't want their major characters played by visible minorities.

 

Why not? Because Hollywood (the producers and studio executives) are racist. They don't want inferior people playing their strong cultural characters. It would cheapen our characters and our brand. You understand of course?

 

Hollywood doesn't come out and say this. Instead, they hide behind the claims of we need to give the audience what it wants. And it doesn't want visible minorities playing lead superhero characters. Why not? Because many white people are also racist and will vehemently argue against visible minority superhero characters in anonymous comments/blogs.

 

Significant change won't come voluntarily. It comes by force. Ice Cube, Queen Latifah, and Tyler Perry do their own thing and bypass the Hollywood studio system in terms of funding their own productions. And I respect them for doing so.

 

Instead of playing the Hollywood game and trying to score a supporting role in a major movie, they're carving out their own paths. It may not be financially or culturally successful as a whole, but their solutions are commendable and deserve respect.

 

Hollywood isn't going to voluntarily give visible minorities lead roles because they've turned over a new leaf. If they give it at all, most of the time, it's just for purposes of branding. Public perception is a key issue in corporate branding.

 

While Hollywood may not want visible minorities in lead roles, they need to appear as if they do in order to win over public perception. We want to give visible minorities these roles but the market and our profit margins won't let us. You understand of course?

 

And then there's the Oscars so white scandal in 2016 with numerous white actors defending, justifying, or turning a blind eye to racism in Hollywood (see Racism in Part II).

 

And then of course, there's Hollywood outcast Shia LaBeouf's racist claims. [53] While LaBeouf claims that he's dealing with alcohol addiction, such things can only bring out that which you have inside of you (see the Mental Health Industry in Part IV).

 

LaBeouf's fall from grace is pretty sad. But everyone loves a good comeback. Robert Downey Jr. makes a spectacular comeback and is now one of the highest paid actors in Hollywood. Even M. Night Shamalyan makes a comeback from his stinker films The Last Airbender (2010) and After Earth (2013). Of course, the odds are against LaBeouf's comeback. Both Downey and Shamalyan have real talent. The same cannot be said for LaBeouf.

 

Still not sure about racism in Hollywood? Even if a Hollywood movie with visible minorities gets the green light, it will have a glass ceiling for the production budget. Don't believe me? See for yourself:

*All production amounts are in USD and from Wikipedia.

*Production budget for movies with all/mainly black lead characters

 

Denzel Washington

Flight, 2012, $31 million

Deja Vu, 2006, $75 million

Fences, 2016, $24 million

The Equalizer, 2014, $73 million.

 

Will Smith

Ali, 2001, $107 million

Seven Pounds, 2008, $54 million

Hancock, 2008, $150 million

I Am legend, 2007, $150 million

I Robot, 2004, $120 million

Bad Boys, 1995, $19 million

Bad Boys II, 2003, $90 million

Concussion, 2015, $57 million

After Earth, 2013, $135 million

The Pursuit of Happyness, 2006, $55 million

Collateral Beauty, 2016, $36 million.

 

Eddie Murphy

A Thousand Words, 2012, $40 million

Imagine That, 2009, $55 million

Meet Dave, 2008, $60 million

Norbit, 2007, $60 million

The Haunted Mansion, 2003, $90 million

Daddy Daycare, 2003, $60 million

The Adventures of Pluto Nash, 2002, $100 million

Dr. Dolittle 2, 2001, $70 million

Nutty Professor II: The Klumps, 2000, $84 million

Life, 1999, $80 million

Dr. Dolittle, 1998, $70 million.

 

Jamie Foxx

The Kingdom, 2007, $70 million

Ray, 2004, $40 million

Sleepless, 2017, $30 million

Breakin' All the Rules, 2004, $10 million.

 

Tyler Perry

Madea's Big Happy Family, 2011, $25 million

Boo! A Madea Halloween, 2016, $20 million

A Madea Christmas, 2013, $25 million

Diary of a Mad Black Woman, 2005, $5.5 million

Madea's Family Reunion, 2006, $6 million.

 

Halle Berry

The Call, 2013, $13 million

Catwoman, 2004, $100 million.

 

Samuel L. Jackson

Coach Carter, 2005, $30 million

Black Snake Moan, 2007, $15 million

Snakes on a Plane, 2006, $33 million

Shaft, 2000, $46 million.

 

Martin Lawrence

Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son, 2011, $32 million

College Road Trip, 2008, unknown, but most likely very low

Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins, 2008, $35 million

Big Momma's House 2, 2006, $40 million

Rebound, 2005, $33 million

Black Knight, 2001, $50 million

Big Momma's House, 2000, $30 million

 

Chris Rock

Top Five, 2014, $12 million

I Think I Love My Wife, 2007, $11 million

Death at a Funeral, 2010, $21 million

Head of State, 2003, $35 million

Pootie Tang, 2001, $7 million

Down to Earth, 2001, $49 million.

 

Kevin Hart

About Last Night, 2014, $12.5 million

Soul Plane, 2004, $16 million.

 

Morris Chestnut

When the Bough Breaks, 2016, $10 million

The Perfect Guy, 2015, $12 million

Not Easily Broken, 2009, $5 million

The Perfect Holiday, 2007, $20 million

The Cave, 2005, $30 million

Half Past Dead, 2002, $25 million

The Brothers, 2001, $6 million

Two Can Play That Game, 2001, $13 million.

 

Ice Cube

Barbershop, 2002, $12 million

Barbershop 2: Back in Business, 2004, $30 million

Barbershop The next Cut, 2016, $20 million

Ride Along 2, 2016, $40 million

Ride Along, 2014, $25 million

Are We Done Yet?, 2007, $28 million

First Sunday, 2008, (unknown budget but most likely very low)

XXX: State of the Union, 2005, $60 million

Are We There Yet?, 2005 $32 million

Friday After Next, 2002, $10 million

All About the Benjamins, 2002, $15 million

Next Friday, 2000, $11 million

The Longshots, 2008, $23 million.

 

Taye Diggs

The Best Man, 1999, $9 million

The Best Man Holiday, 2013, $17 million

Brown Sugar, 2002, $8 million

The Wood, 1999, $6 million

How Stella Got Her Groove Back, 1998, $20 million

Rent, 2005, $40 million.

 

Cuba Gooding Jr.

The Fighting Temptations, 2003, $30 million

Boat Trip, 2002, $20 million

Snow Dogs, 2002, $33 million

 

Others

12 Years a Slave, 2013, $17 million

The Butler, 2013, $30 million

The Karate Kid, 2010 $40 million

Moonlight, 2016 $4 million

Girls Trip, 2017, $27.7 million

Code Name: The Cleaner, 2007, $20 million

Biker Boyz, 2003, $24 million

Hotel Rwanda, 2004, $17.5 million

Pride, 2007, (unknown budget but most likely very low)

Get Rich or Die Tryin', 2005, $40 million

Hustle & Flow, 2005, $2.8 million

Think Like a Man, 2012, $12 million

Think Like a Man Too, 2014, $24 million

Lottery Ticket, 2010, $17 million

ATL, 2006, $20 million

Little Man, 2006, $64 million

How High, 2001, $20 million

Straight Outta Compton, 2015, $50 million

Beauty Shop, 2005 $25 million

Baggage Claim, 2013, $8.5 million

No Good Deed, 2014, $13 million

Almost Christmas, 2016, $17 million.

 

Only 7/108 (6.5%) of these movies have a budget over $100 million. None of them have a budget over $200 million. But if the leads are white actors, money just opens up. George Lucas says it better:

 

George Lucas is quite frank about why Hollywood studios turned their backs on his Tuskegee Airmen action film, Red Tails: they didn't want to put money into a film featuring an all-black cast.

..."They don't believe there's any foreign market for it and that's 60 percent of their profit...I showed it to all of them and they said 'No. We don't know how to market a movie like this.' " [54]

 

I'm sure that someone could even create a loose formula where the darker the skin color, the lower the production budget. The more black lead characters, the lower the production budget. And that's not accidental. That's intentional.

 

One of the compromises by Hollywood is to pair black actors with white ones in order to justify the budgets:

 

Manchurian Candidate, 2004, $80 million

Enemy of the State, 1998, $90 million

Men of Honor, 2000, $32 million

The Hitman's Bodyguard, 2017, $30 million

Fist Fight, 2017, $25 million

Save the Last Dance, 2001, $13 million

The Dark Tower, 2017, $60 million

Nurse Betty, 2000, $35 million

Event Horizon, 1997, $60 million

Miami Vice, 2006, $135 million

Bad Company, 2002, $70 million

Focus, 2015, $50 million

Blue Streak, 1999, $36 million

Traitor, 2008, $22 million

In the Mix, 2005, (unknown budget, but most likely very low)

Training Day, 2001, $45 million

What's the Worst That Could Happen?, 2001, $60 million

National Security, 2003, (unknown budget but most likely very low)

Django Unchained, 2012, $100 million

Law Abiding Citizen, 2009, $53 million

Collateral, 2004, $65 million

Annie, 2014, $65 million

Hitch, 2005, $70 million

Wild Wild West, 1999, $170 million

The Spirit, 2008, $60 million

Jumper, 2008: $85 million

Freedomland, 2006, $30 million

The Man, 2005, $20 million

Central Intelligence, 2016, $50 million

Changing Lanes, 2002, $45 million

Instinct, 1999, $80 million

Formula 51, 2001, $27 million

Unbreakable, 2000, $75 million

The Negotiator, 1998, $50 million

The Soloist, 2009, $60 million

I Spy. 2002, $70 million

Chill Factor, 1999, $70 million

Cop Out, 2010, $30 million

Showtime, 2002, $85 million

Get Hard, 2014, $40 million

What Dreams May Come, 1998, $85 million

American Gangster, 2007, $100 million

Radio, 2003, $30 million

Bowfinger, 1999, $55 million.

 

Only 4/44 (9.1%) have budgets over $100 million. None of them have budgets over $200 million. The most expensive film ever made is Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011) with a production budget of over $400 million.

 

There's no way that Hollywood studios will spend $400 million on a visible minority lead movie, let alone $300 million or even $200 million. The reality is that a blockbuster movie with white people as the lead characters has no ceiling. Only movies with visible minority lead characters have a ceiling. That's not accidental. That's intentional.

 

And Hollywood has a way of sticking with failure. Despite massive box office flops or bombs, Hollywood continues to give Nicholas Cage, Pierce Brosnan, and Colin Farrell lead roles in regular/blockbuster movies.

 

Why? Because they have star power. And why do they have star power? Because they're white.  If a white male fails at anything in this life, 9/10 times they'll be given a second and third chance. White people deserve all opportunities in this life because they're superior beings. You understand of course?

 

While Hollywood can argue that Mexican, Asian, Brown, Black, and Aboriginal actors/actresses don't have the star power to justify blockbuster production budgets, they can't get the star power because they're constantly being denied lead roles. The famous Catch 22:

I want a job.

You have no experience.

I can't get experience if no one gives me a job.

 

Visible minorities can't get the roles because Hollywood (producers/studio executives) won't give it to them. Again, that's not accidental. That's intentional.

 

My apologies for constantly saying the term that's not accidental. That's intentional. The repetition is meant to help your powers of realization/understanding. You need to start realizing that none of these executive decisions about the lack of visible minority castings are accidental.

 

You need to realize that there's no such thing as unconscious or subconscious racism. There's only racism and different forms of expressing it. If a person isn't aware of their own racist ideologies, that's because they don't care to know or don't believe that it's a problem.

 

There will never be a Hollywood Lucy (2014) movie with a black or Asian woman. Why not? We can't show visible minority women in strong roles. That's not what we're selling.

 

Julia Roberts is the lead in many films that either flop or bomb at the box office. But she still gets lead roles on a regular basis. Why? Because white people deserve second, third, and all the chances that the white Christian god gives. Or, they deserve all the chances that evolution (which selects for white superiority) offers. You understand of course?

 

Visible minority females would never be given that many chances. While the racism of white people against black people is very different from Asian people, in Hollywood, it's all the same. Inferior beings play inferior characters.

 

And then there are the producers and studio executives that green light everything and make final decisions on casting. Obviously, this is the heart of racism in Hollywood. Take a look at the Hollywood Reporter's Producer Roundtable sessions:

 

2016/ 2017: No visible minorities.

Matt Damon, Frank Marshall, Marc Platt, Darren Aronofsky, Emma Tillinger Koskoff, and Todd Black.

 

2015/2016: 1 visible minority.

Steve Golin, Ice Cube, Scott Cooper, Simon Kinberg, Stacey Sher, and Christine Vachon.

 

2014/2015: No visible minorities.

Peter Chernin, Cathleen Sutherland, Marc Platt, Emma Thomas, John Lesher, and Eric Fellner.

 

2013/2014: No visible minorities.

Mark Whalberg, Charles Roven, Pam Williams, Michael De Luca, Dede Gardner, and David Heyman.

 

In a request for comment I ask the Hollywood Reporter:

1. In your last four producer roundtable sessions, you only have 1/24 visible minority producers (Ice Cube) as a participant. Do you believe that 1/24 producers on your show over a 4 year time span represents racism in Hollywood at the producer/studio executive level?

 

They don't respond.

 

1/24 works out to 4.2%. 95.8% white and 4.2% visible minorities definitely represent racism in Hollywood producers/studio executives. If you don't think so, you're living in a dream world or you’re wrapped up in your ideological bubble.

 

Should Hollywood make space for visible minorities? Yes. Will they? Only with concerted public pressure. But even if they do, is that space really genuine or is it just token/quota/affirmative action? I believe it's the latter.

 

Why? Because most white people believe in space for visible minorities, but only at the bottom rungs. They really believe that only white people can be at the top governing visible minorities. Of course, they'll never admit such things, but that's what many of them believe.

 

And no amount of liberal media articles and diversity workshops is going to change the racism in Hollywood. While audiences vote with their dollars at the box office, movies are a cultural fixture in WE society.

 

Hence, there will be no significant changes in box office revenue due to a lack of visible minority actors/actresses. The only genuine and long term solution is to change the ideologies via radical dualism (see Racism in Part II).

 

But a more practical solution after radical dualism would be to create a default casting structure for lead roles with higher levels representing more diversity:

 

*Note: Asian - Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Malaysian, Singaporean, Indonesian...

*Note: Brown - East Indian, West Indian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan...

*Note: White - Western European, (including Jews).

 

Trio level: black, white, Asian.

Quad level: black, white, Asian, Mexican.

Penta level: black, white, Asian, Mexican, Brown.

Hexa level: black, white, Asian, Mexican, Brown, Aboriginal.

 

I doubt that anyone in Hollywood will take this structure seriously, but there's no harm in mentioning it. To be fair, you can also argue that space for visible minorities from the token/quota/affirmative action perspective is genuine because that's how society works. Government A implements policy X and the people react to it.

 

White people in the past intentionally suppress visible minorities through racist polices in WE society. Visible minorities respond with the civil rights movement. Governments then react to the civil rights movement and create the quota/affirmative action system.

 

And that's where we are in WE society. Most visible minorities are happy with the quota/affirmative action system if it's implemented in their geographic area. Though it may not reflect a genuine will of white people making space for visible minorities, that's life. Bills need to be paid. Is it better to argue for your principles in poverty, or to compromise as the token visible minority with a moderate living wage? It's a personal call for everyone.

 

Sadly, the Trump administration is starting to chip away at the affirmative action system. While many people argue its merits, others are trying to dismantle it and let the chips fall where they fall.

 

But all visible minorities know how that will end. They'll have to work extra hard in order to prove that they're not inferior to white people, with their white employers judging them more harshly. It's a losing situation for visible minorities, but a winning situation for white employers at the top of the corporate pyramid. That's just life. You understand of course?

 

But again, this is where we are today in 2017. Visible minorities are still fighting for jobs at the lower rungs. While there's some public pressure for visible minorities at the highest rungs, white people in general and liberal media outlets tend not to push the issue too much. Why not?

 

Because many liberal institutions don't have visible minorities at the top. It's just white people telling visible minorities what they should or shouldn't be doing. And that's not accidental. That's intentional.

 

In the future, with concerted public pressure, the battle will be for affirmative action/quota system at the top corporate rungs. Of course, that will be followed by questions of whether it's deserved or token. Even if it's token is it still genuine?

 

Will visible minorities at the top be a genuine reflection of white people believing that visible minorities can succeed at the top? Or, will white people judge them more harshly if they fail? Lots of questions, lots of debate, and lots of sound bites for mainstream media outlets. There are so many potential directions that nothing is certain, aside from the fact that visible minorities will have a long uphill battle in their future.

 

Another interesting characteristic about Hollywood/TV is the writing. In the past, many shows only have white writers. Even if the characters are visible minorities, the writers have all been white in the past. It's only in the last decade that things have been changing, again due to public pressure and a corporation's public image.

 

Personally, I'm like most writers. If it works it works. As a Guyanese-Canadian writer, I write for all of my characters and their diverse ethnic backgrounds. How? Personal experiences and the internet. It's not that difficult.

 

Yes, it would be nice to have black people writing about the black stories instead of white writers, but in 2017, on a major TV show or movie, the end results will be insignificant for most viewers. Most viewers are looking at the plot, not the minute details that you would only get from a visible minority writer telling a story about visible minorities.

 

The main advantage that visible minority writers have over white writers in telling a story about visible minorities is their powers of observation and personal experiences. Their personal experiences will more or less suffice in regards to visible minority characters. But their powers of observation in looking at and understanding white culture will also suffice.

 

My apologies if this sounds insincere to white people, but white culture isn't rocket science. While white European culture is more nuanced, white North American culture is very easy for first generation and second generation visible minorities to understand.

 

Visible minorities can observe and put ourselves in white people's shoes with a pretty good level of understanding. And yet, many white writers aren't capable of putting themselves in our shoes.

 

Though white writers know about the alienation, second glances, discrimination and overall racism that visible minorities face, they don't understand what it feels like. That's where visible minorities have the advantage. They have observation and personal experiences on their side.

 

Hence, it would make sense to see visible minority writers as having more value than white writers in the writing process. Rationally speaking, this should translate into higher wages.

 

Interestingly enough, from time to time Hollywood pushes out another slavery film under the pretense of we have to tell these stories. Yah...no. In the digital era, people around the world are quite capable of being aware of all the facets of slavery. They don't need another Hollywood movie/TV show to help them understand. If people aren't aware of slavery, that's because they don't care to know about it.

 

But that won't stop HBO's upcoming show Confederate. It's about the Confederates leaving the Union and slavery being the law in the 21st century. Fabulous. That's clearly what visible minorities need right now (forgive the sarcasm).

 

It's being written by the white writers of Game of Thrones along with two black writers. Writing about slavery being legal in the 21st century will only add fuel to the white supremacy movement.

 

But even with the death of a woman at the hands of a white supremacist in August 2017, HBO is still pushing ahead with the show. [55] At least Amazon's upcoming show Black America has potential with its plot of giving black people their own sovereign nation as reparations.

 

Again, every few years Hollywood puts out a new movie/TV show with slavery themes and black people being call n*ggers. It's almost as if white Hollywood producers want to remind black people of their inferior socio-cultural status.

 

While black people have rebranded the term n*gger with n*gga, the use of the denigrating term n*gger is always in play in Hollywood. In his standup, Chris Rock says that there's only three cases when white people can say the term n*gger...during sex, a rap song, or a robbery. [56]

 

Oddly enough, there's a fourth case, Hollywood movie slavery scripts. Every few years, there's another Hollywood movie with white people calling black people n*ggers. Don't believe me? See for yourself:

 

Pulp Fiction (1994)

Ghosts of Mississippi (1996)

Jackie Brown (1997)

Men of Honor (2000)

Hart's War (2002)

Amazing Grace (2006)

Pride (2007)

The Secret Life of Bees (2008)

The Help (2011)

Django Unchained (2012)

12 Years a Slave (2013)

The Butler (2013)

42 (2013)

Selma (2014)

The Hateful Eight (2015)

 

It's almost as if these movies are created just so white actors can say the word n*gger and white racist moviegoers can repeat it.

 

And just to be clear, white actors/actresses don't gloss over their n*gger lines. No no no. They lay into it with passion and scorn. Not the friendly n*gga term, but the denigrating n*gger term. But we have to do it. It's in the script. Very true. It is in the script. And the script has been approved by the director, producer, and studio executives.

 

I can even see white actors/actresses in their trailers rehearsing their n*gger lines and really laying into it. I'd bet they could even go to a major store in a white community and start saying n*gger this and n*gger that. The crowd would initially be shocked, but they'd get comfortable very quickly. It's okay. It's part of a new movie script.

 

I would bet that the white crowd would volunteer to help practice the lines. I can see white people and even non-black visible minorities laying in the term n*gger while helping an actor/actress to rehearse their lines. Saturday Night Live (SNL) should do a skit about this.

 

It's almost as if white Hollywood gives white supremacists and white people in general a bit of breathing room for their slavery dialogue of n*gger this and n*gger that. Since they can't say such things publicly, Hollywood does it for them. Fabulous. Only Hollywood could create a template for other studios and film/TV production companies to get away with using the term n*gger in the 21st century.

 

And movie theatre venues and TV networks won't censor the term because it's an integral part of the script. Brilliant. I wonder how many times white actors/actresses in HBOs Confederate will be saying the term n*gger through flashbacks of the past and modern times. Only time will tell.

 

Should white Hollywood executives make space for visible minority writers, actors, directors, and producers? Yes. But at the moment, the space is just token/affirmative action. It's still better than nothing.

 

But it's not genuine because it doesn't reflect a genuine change in the ideologies of white Hollywood producers/studio executives. But that's IF Hollywood allows them space at the table. Take it from infamous Canadian comedian Russell Peters on Larry King:

 

The whole movie and TV industry is like high school. And if you're not in with the cool kids you're not ah...doesn't matter how good you are...you're just not in with the cool kids. [57]

 

As all visible minorities know, we can't wait for white people to voluntarily change their ideologies. If visible minority artists want token space from white Hollywood producers/executives, they'll have to force their way in, even if it makes white people uncomfortable.

 

If visible minority artists don't want to compromise their craft, they have to create their own space, along with their own production and distribution companies. Such actions will be difficult in 2017 with Hollywood cannibalizing itself through mergers and acquisitions, but no one said life was going to be easy.

 

To be fair to Hollywood, they’re f*cked no matter what they do for visible minorities.

 

Is the bad guy a visible minority? You're racist and holding back visible minorities.

 

Is the good guy white? You're racist and holding back visible minorities.

 

Are the supporting characters visible minorities? You're racist and holding back visible minorities.

 

But it's also fair to say that the lead roles for blockbuster movies/TV shows only have white actors/actresses (Transformers, Game of Thrones, House of Cards, Pirates of the Caribbean, Lord of the Rings, and Harry Potter).

 

It's almost as if visible minorities don't exist in medieval times. Of course, in the mind of many closet white racists, they don't exist. And even if they exist, they don't really matter.

 

Sports & Entertainment & Media & Industry

While there are visible minorities in sports, entertainment, media, and industry in general, they exist at the lowest rungs. Even black sports athletes who get paid big money are just entertainment commodities for the global public.

 

And who owns these puppets via corporations? White people. Take a look at your favorite sports team, Hollywood studio (movies/TV), media outlet, and industry in general, and 99% of the time, you'll find that the owners are white people. That's not accidental. That's intentional.

 

And this applies to liberal media outlets as well. Take a look at the owners and/or board of directors and more often than not, most of them are filled white people. Why? Because many white liberals don't believe that visible minorities can govern themselves or a corporation properly.

 

That's something only white people can succeed at. Of course, they're not going to say this out loud, but that's what they mean when the owners/board of directors are filled with mostly white people.

 

However, conspiracy theorists tend to exaggerate from time to time. Such is the case for Bill Cosby. In 1992 Bill Cosby tries to buy NBC but fails. According to some conspiracy theorists, this is why GSIGs try to destroy his career starting in October 2014 via Hannibal Buress.

 

Unfortunately, the conspiracy is complete nonsense. Yes, many white owners/board of directors don't want to sell their corporations to visible minorities. And yes, white bank owners/board of directors/ managers are less likely to give visible minorities loans to buy out white corporations. God forbid visible minority corporations (aside from China) buying out multinational corporations owned by white people.

 

But Cosby's fall from grace is not the fault of white corporate America. It's due to his overinflated ego and socio-cultural status. When you're as big as Cosby in the past, it's difficult for women to say no. And no, Hannibal Buress isn't a shill of the deep state. The allegations against Cosby gain traction because of a February 2014 article in Gawker. [58]

 

While Cosby is legally innocent due to a mistrial in July 2017, regardless of future trials, Cosby has been and always will be the father of comedy for visible minorities. Visible minority comedians really begins with Dick Gregory and Cosby and moves it forward with Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle, Russell Peters, Kevin Hart, and Aziz Ansari standing on Cosby's shoulders.

 

For the record, Richard Pryor's comedy (with no censorship) is a significant contribution to free speech and against censorship in comedy. And for the record, Charlie Chaplin is and always will be the founder of comedy in the visual arts and the king of comedy.

 

However, Cosby's advocacy toward black empowerment is his most valuable contribution to humanity as a whole. And the conspiracy theory of taking down Cosby because of advocacy of black empowerment has slightly better merit than the NBC conspiracy.

 

Before I get to the racism in Silicon Valley, I want to get into the Young Turks (TYT). TYT is a progressive media outlet. They use the term progressive instead of liberal because of their advocacy against Democrats being funded by Big Industry. But I find the distinction barely significant. Unfortunately, TYT seems to have taken a page from academic philosophers where more labels equals a greater understanding. Such nonsense.

 

But generally speaking, if Brietbart and Infowars is the alternative media for the conservative side, TYT is the alternative media for the liberal side. While it's already known that conservative media outlets don't advocate diversity, liberal media outlets on the other hand vehemently advocate diversity.

 

But that's just on the surface. If you take a look at them, their employees aren't really diverse. It's just white people at the top or getting most of the airtime. I'll use TYT as an example.

 

TYT is a for-profit media outlet created by Cenk Uyger. That for-profit status alone is enough to question TYTs claims about not wanting corporate money. But we’ll get into that in the *Media article. While TYT claims that it supports diversity, its regular commentators look pretty white:

 

Francis Maxwell

Ben Mankiewicz

Jordan Chariton

Hasan Piker

Grace Baldridge

Jason Rubin

Farron Cousins

Hannah Cranston

Michael Shure

Cary Harrison

Mike Papantonio.

 

Aside from them, Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian can pass for white. While this is a touchy subject it can't be ignored. Many visible minorities have very light skin and could pass for white people. Does this mean that they don't count as visible minorities? Yes and no. Genetically, yes, but socially, no. I'll give you a real example, US Democrat Senator Elizabeth Warren:

 

Warren says, yes, she is, and points to "family stories" passed down to her through generations as evidence.

"I am very proud of my heritage," Warren told NPR in 2012. "These are my family stories. This is what my brothers and I were told by my mom and my dad, my mammaw and my pappaw. This is our lives. And I'm very proud of it."

In that account and others, a genealogist traced Warren's Native American heritage to the late 19th century, which, if true, would make her 1/32 Native American. (However, the legitimacy of those findings has been debated.) [59]

 

If you Google images of Warren, you'll see that she looks very much like any other white woman. There are no traces of Aboriginal features in her appearance. But let's pretend that the 1/32 Aboriginal/Native American lineage is correct (Canadians use the term Aboriginal/First Nation instead of Native American). Does that 1/32 make her Native American? It depends on who you ask.

 

If you're asking Aboriginals, for some of them, if one person is Aboriginal way down in the family line, it counts. For official Aboriginal status in some First Nation communities, there's a limit to the level of dilution from past generations. For some non-Aboriginal visible minorities and white people in general, if a person looks white, they'll be perceived as white, regardless of any past Aboriginal ancestry.

 

The battle is between genotypes vs. phenotypes. Genetics vs. social constructs. Facts vs. the perception of facts. Aside from my excessive use of the term That's not accidental. That's intentional...If you don't understand the distinction between facts/reality and perception of those facts/reality, you won't understand anything in life. You'll be aware of things. But you won't understand.

 

Perception is key because all of us are looking at the world through a subjective lens. Your perception of a car crash isn't the same as another person. Why not? Aside from powers of observation, perception is highly influenced by ones ideologies. On the surface, everyone sees the same thing (a car crash). But in reality, they interpret and reinterpret that memory based on their ideologies.

 

But let's get back to the issue at hand. Warren claims she's Native American. Is she correct? It depends on your ideologies. For me personally, no, she doesn't count as Aboriginal. Even if she is 1/32 Native American genetically, if it doesn't show in her physical appearance, the general public would perceive her as a regular woman. And I argue that this would be the correct perception.

 

This is such a touchy subject that even the Washington Post doesn't want it:

 

The Washington Post's "Fact Checker" page has actually decided against judging the issue at all, offering "no rating" and, in a piece Tuesday, suggesting "readers to look into it on their own and decide whether Trump's attacks over Warren's background have merit." [59]

 

When even the Washington Post refuses to touch the issue, that's how you know that there's a limit to political correctness. There's only so much bullsh*t you can get away with before people start questioning your statements.

 

On the one hand, the Washington Post wants to demonize Trump and build up Clinton (prior to and after the election). On the other hand, the Washington Post doesn't want to be insensitive to visible minorities. Hence, they take a hands-off approach.

 

In the end, you have white owners and white management of the Washington Post claiming to speak for the interests of visible minorities. But I just see it as white people telling visible minority staff and readers what they should or shouldn't be doing. Some call this the legacy of colonial genocide. I just call it racism.

 

Racism isn't just about overt racist actions. It's about the ideology of one ethnicity/race being superior to another. And in the corporate world of the 21st century, that ideology takes the form of visible minorities not being promoted to senior management/executive level.

 

Instead of empowerment, it keeps visible minorities in their place. Liberal media outlets such as the Washington Post and TYT are not empowering visible minorities. They're suppressing their potential and keeping them in line. And that's not accidental. That's intentional.

 

But what really pisses me off (sorry, I need to vent), is that Warren uses her 1/32 Native American ancestry to fit a visible minority quota for law school:

 

Harvard Law School in the 1990s touted Warren, then a professor in Cambridge, as being "Native American." They singled her out, Warren later acknowledged, because she had listed herself as a minority in an Association of American Law Schools directory.

...Brown [Scott Brown] told WCVB in Boston that he didn't condone their actions, but said "the real offense is that (Warren) said she was white and then checked the box saying she is Native American, and then she changed her profile in the law directory once she made her tenure." [59]

 

On the surface, you have the liberal trifecta advocating for the interests of visible minorities. But in reality, it's just white people (like Warren) telling visible minorities what they should and shouldn't be doing. Some call it the legacy of cultural genocide. I just call it racism.

 

Now that we have a better understanding of light skinned visible minorities who can pass for white people, we can continue in our visible minority analysis of TYT. While there are Asian and black visible minorities on the show, white commentators (and those who would pass for white) get the most airtime. That's not accidental. That's intentional.

 

And then we get to Uygur and Kasparian's views on the affirmative action/quota system in regards to the Seinfeld diversity issue:

 

Kasparian: I can't stand the criticism of...oh you know, this show doesn't have enough black people, or enough Asian people, enough Native Americans...like...everyone just needs to calm down...Like if you start having these quotas, it's not a good thing.

Uygur: When it's forced it’s so stupid. We wound up having the most diversity in the world here at the Young Turks but we didn't force it. It just...that's how it turned out to be. [60]

 

Umm...what? Quotas are not a good thing? When it's forced it's stupid? These people are cracked in the head. They don't understand that significant change doesn't come voluntarily. Civil rights don't come voluntarily. It comes because black people force the change. Why? Because prior to that, equal opportunities exist in theory, but not in reality for visible minorities.

 

And diversity at TYT? They must be high if they can't see the dominance of their white/would pass for white commentators. While Uygur and Kasparian appear to fight for the plight of visible minorities in Hollywood or Silicon Valley, in reality it's just for the sake of appearances. And you can prove that by looking at TYT's mostly white/would pass for white commentators.

 

In regards to the Seinfeld diversity issue, both sides are correct. Yes, comedy is comedy. As a man of comedy myself, comedy is comedy. And if you're not funny, people won't be interested regardless of ethnicity/race. However, as a visible minority man of comedy, I can see the lack of opportunities for visible minority comedians.

 

In reality, visible minority comedians aren't necessarily given the same opportunities as white comedians. And even if they're given opportunities at the lowest rungs, the odds of them getting their own show are very slim.

 

Aziz Ansari's Master of None show is the exception. Unfortunately, many white people who are NOT racist and achieve high status, don't understand the plights of 99% of visible minorities. Good intentions, but a lack of understanding in how to help/change the situation for the better.

 

Kasparian even doubles down on her anti-affirmative action stance in regards to Silicon Valley:

 

I think the hardest thing about hiring practices and making sure you are taking diversity into account is that all of a sudden you find yourself picking token members of each community. And I hate that. I want the emphasis to be on skill...Unfortunately, what complicates that we all have subconscious biases against certain groups. [61]

 

Sorry, but there's no such thing as the subconscious, subconscious bias, or subconscious racism. The subconscious is merely a term created by psychologists to describe an automatic response program. Sorry, but that's just regular learning.

 

If you do action X more/reinforce X on a constant basis, it will appear to be automatic. But it's only automatic because of your conscious intent to make it automatic. Just because you're not aware of the ideologies in your mind doesn't mean that you can justify it as a subconscious bias. And just in case you're wondering, yes, you can change any ideologies that you don't want running in your mind (see Philosophy of Mind in Part I).

 

And for those of you not in the know, psychology is not a real science. Why not? Because the theories are not falsifiable. All of those brilliant psychological models are unfalsifiable ideological science. It has no basis in objective science. None whatsoever. And no amount of statistics can transform it into a real science (see Philosophy of Science in Part I and The Mental Health Industry in Part IV).

 

Many white people/people who would pass for white lament the emphasis to be on skill instead of race/ethnicity. In theory, that's a good idea. In reality, that skill level is filtered through the employer's perception of race/ethnicity. Why? Because a lot of white people are closet racists.

 

In their job, they act normal, but behind closed doors, they're super racist. Most visible minorities are well aware of this in the 21st century. Just as black people in the past have to put on two faces (one for working with white people, and one for home life), many white people today are doing the same.

 

Unfortunately, the first of anything for visible minorities in a white corporate environment will be token. The token slot is disingenuous because it doesn't represent a genuine desire for white people to welcome visible minorities in senior management.

 

BUT...and it's a big but, that token slot is necessary to crack open the door to allow more visible minorities in, and hopefully by then, white owners/board of directors/managers will then hire more visible minorities based on their skill, with the desire to help them succeed potentially becoming genuine. Until that scenario occurs, quotas, affirmative action, and token slots are the correct actions to open the executive level/board of directors/owners door.

 

And then we have lawsuits alleging racism against media outlets and Silicon Valley companies:

 

Troubles at Fox News compounded yet again on Tuesday, with the emergence of new allegations of racial discrimination at the company coming less than a week after the ouster of the network's star Bill O'Reilly.

Eleven current and former Fox News employees filed a class-action lawsuit in New York against the network, accusing it of "abhorrent, intolerable, unlawful and hostile racial discrimination." [62]

 

Palantir, a Silicon Valley company with ties to Donald Trump, has agreed to pay $1.7m to settle a government lawsuit alleging racial discrimination against Asian applicants.

The $20bn data analytics company, co-founded by Peter Thiel, one of the president's advisers, has not admitted wrongdoing in the settlement, which comes at a time of increasing debate about discrimination in the tech industry.

The payout, negotiated by the Trump administration’s Department of Labor (DoL), comes amid concern in Silicon Valley over the immigration and labor policies likely to be enacted by the White House. [63]

 

While some may call this a win for justice, when you make billions in profit, losing $1.7 million means almost nothing. And this settlement (like all settlements) comes after the usual claim that we will vigorously defend ourselves against these salacious charges. Oh please.

 

Take a look at any corporate settlement and then look for an article with the initial charges and you'll see the same bullsh*t line. And the Silicon Valley lawsuits continue:

 

Oracle is being sued by the Labor Department for allegedly paying white men more than their counterparts and for favoring Asian workers when recruiting and hiring for technical roles.

...Oracle refused to comply with the Labor Department's investigation, which began in 2014, such as refusing to provide compensation data for all employees, complete hiring data for certain business lines and employee complaints of discrimination, according to the federal agency. [64]

 

And then we have the supposed corporate racial misunderstandings:

 

ESPN issued an apology and explanation Tuesday after airing a live version of a fantasy football auction that some people felt was racist.

The segments featured an auctioneer offering NFL players, some of whom were African American, up for bid to a group of fantasy football players, most of whom were white men. For many people, this came too close to resembling a slave auction. And the segment came two days after deadly violence around a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va. [65]

 

The color of a wig cap being sold on Walmart.com was described using a racist term [n*gger brown] — and quickly, the hate-speech product description went viral.

The language in the product being listed and sold by a third-party vendor through Walmart.com has since been removed... [66]

 

The skin care brand Nivea set off a controversy this week with an ad featuring the phrase "White is purity," again finding itself accused of racial insensitivity over a campaign that seemed to be embraced by white supremacists.

...One Facebook user paired the ad with a screenshot from a 2011 Nivea campaign, featuring a well-dressed black male clutching the Afro of a mannequin’s head. The tagline, "Re-civilize yourself." Nivea apologized for the campaign, calling it "inappropriate and offensive." [67]

 

White is purity? Re-civilize yourself? Yup...sounds about right. That's pretty much what I expect from white Corporate America. And the racial misunderstandings continue:

 

Pepsi has apologized for a controversial advertisement that borrowed imagery from the Black Lives Matter movement, after a day of intense criticism from people who said it trivialized the widespread protests against the killings of black people by the police.

The ad, posted to YouTube on Tuesday, shows attractive young people holding milquetoast signs with nonspecific pleas like "Join the conversation." The protesters are uniformly smiling, laughing, clapping, hugging and high-fiving.

In the ad's climactic scene, a police officer accepts a can of Pepsi from Kendall Jenner, a white woman, setting off raucous approval from the protesters and an appreciative grin from the officer. [68]

 

All racism and police brutality can be cured by white people drinking Pepsi? Bless your heart Pepsi. SNL is kind enough to do a hilarious parody skit of the racist Pepsi ad. [69]

 

If it's not apparent by now, regular white people see themselves as saviors to inferior visible minorities.

 

We're here to save black people from police brutality.

 

We're here to save Mexicans and Asians from discrimination in Hollywood.

 

We're here to save Aboriginals and their dumb backwards culture.

 

Wherever you go, the script is the same. Regular white people are saving visible minorities from the bad guys or themselves. And that's not accidental. That's intentional. Even white people who want to help visible minorities in general believe that they're superior to them and have an obligation to help the inferior visible minorities.

 

More often than not, we're just a sympathy case to make white people feel better about themselves. Anytime you see white people leading the charge against an oppressor, it's usually because white people believe that only they have the proper faculties/characteristics to deal with the situation.

 

To my white friends who genuinely want to help the plight of visible minorities...stay the f*ck in the background. Instead being the savior of poor visible minorities all around the world, give visible minorities the tools they need to empower themselves and able to fight their own battles.

 

You won't get any credit, but you'll know that you’ve made a genuine difference to the plight of visible minorities. Afterwards, you can have your dark chocolate, a glass of red wine, pat yourself on the shoulder, and call it a day.

 

Only by empowering visible minorities to take control of their own destiny can white people ever truly help visible minorities. Anything else is just sympathy/racist sympathy.

 

The racist message to visible minorities is clear from all sectors of WE society.

You can stand on the shoulders of great white inventors. But you can't be one yourself.

You can be a journalist. But you can't own a major media outlet.

You can be an actor or a writer in Hollywood. But you can't own a studio or be a famous producer.

 

Again, none of this is accidental. All of it is intentional. The sooner you realize this, the sooner real progress can be made.

 

And now we can really get into the racism in Silicon Valley. And it's not pretty:

 

At Twitter, blacks and Latinos make up only 6% of all employees, and that's hardly unique.

As much as venture capitalists tout themselves as risk­takers, many of them are looking to make money in familiar ways, with familiar faces: white boys armed with all of the right cultural catchphrases.

"So when someone fits the pattern — white or Asian, went to Stanford, then went to Google — they'll say, 'That person knows what they're doing,' or 'They'll figure it out either way,'" Joseph said. "And they'll write that person a $2 million check."

But when people of color who don't fit the typical template come along, even ones with Ivy League educations and sterling business experience, they don't get the benefit of the doubt.

...Some investors within Silicon Valley's homogenous culture found it so difficult to imagine an African­American male as a CEO that Matt Joseph's pitch meetings included scattered comparisons to random black celebrities from outside technology. [70]

 

In May last year, a stunning report claimed that a computer program used by a US court for risk assessment was biased against black prisoners.

...Compas and programs similar to it were in use in hundreds of courts across the US, potentially informing the decisions of judges and other officials. The message seemed clear: the US justice system, reviled for its racial bias, had turned to technology for help, only to find that the algorithms had a racial bias too.

...as our computational tools have become more advanced, they have become more opaque. The data they rely on – arrest records, postcodes, social affiliations, income – can reflect, and further ingrain, human prejudice.

...tech companies spent somewhere between $20bn and $30bn on AI, mostly in research and development.

...It has led to a decade-long AI arms race in which the UK government is offering six-figure salaries to computer scientists. [71]

 

Computer programs being racist against visible minorities? Yup...that sounds about right for Silicon Valley. I wouldn't be surprised if the first AI is racist to visible minorities and exterminates us...right before white people find a way to shut it down. Tragic and hilarious. And the racism in Silicon Valley continues:

 

Just last week, Facebook...founder Mark Zuckerberg condemned the behavior of some of his employees for crossing out "black lives matter" on the walls of Facebook's headquarters, replacing it with "all lives matter."

Just 1% of Facebook's tech workers are black. It's only slightly better -- 3% -- in non-technical roles. In 2014, just 2.9% of its new hires were black...

It's a similar story at other big tech companies. Despite publishing diversity reports and expressing a desire to increase minority hires, they haven't shown a measurable improvement over the last few years.

...Like Facebook, just 1% of Google's tech workers are black.

...I've heard many similar anecdotes from others in the tech industry while reporting on diversity in Silicon Valley. Black tech employees have recounted being mistaken for a secretary to being told to add a white person to their team if they wanted to raise capital. [72]

 

Google has apologized after its new Photos application identified black people as "gorillas."

On Sunday Brooklyn programmer Jacky Alcine tweeted a screenshot of photos he had uploaded in which the app had labeled Alcine and a friend, both African American, "gorillas."

...At Google, seven out of 10 employees are men. Most employees are white (60%) and Asian (31%). Latinos made up just 3% of the work force and African Americans just 2% — a far cry from fulfilling the mission of Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin to have their company reflect the racial and ethnic diversity of its users in the USA and around the world. [73]

 

Goggle's advanced software identifies black people as Gorillas? Yup...that sounds about right for Silicon Valley. But let's not blame it all on Silicon Valley's racial discrimination. We can also blame it on Canadian companies as well:

 

Members of Canada's tech community saw Trump's move as a rejection of the diversity on which they felt their industry was built and decided to speak out.

...But when CBC News sought to gauge what this commitment to diversity looks like in practice, Canada's tech community had remarkably little to say.

In May, we asked 31 Canadian technology companies if they collected data on the diversity of their employees, and if so, whether they would share this data with CBC News.

Only two companies...were willing to do so.

...As recently as 2016, we learned that just 145 of Facebook's nearly 8,500 employees are black. We learned that 12 per cent of Apple employees are Hispanic, versus just four per cent at Google.

...Among the industry's biggest players, there has been little progress in recent years.

The overwhelming majority of companies declined to participate while two of the biggest names in Canadian tech, BlackBerry and Hootsuite, did not respond to multiple requests for comment...The reluctance to talk numbers isn't unique to Canada. In the U.S., high-profile companies such as Tesla, Snap and Spotify still haven't released reports. [74]

 

The man in charge of Montreal's 375th anniversary celebrations is apologizing that a commercial for the festivities depicts only white people.

Nakuset, co­chair of the Montreal Urban Aboriginal Community Strategy Network, said the video doesn't reflect the reality of Montreal.

"I think people don't know there are 26,000 urban Aboriginal Montrealers. We are here, and we are multitalented, doing all different kinds of work...and yet, people don't recognize us," she said.
... "We were not consulted. Our projects were put forward, and they were denied," she said. [75]

 

The solutions by liberal media outlets are hilarious. Aside from diversity workshops, they try to take it from a financial point of view. Lack of diversity hurts your bottom line. Umm...what? Sorry, but that's false. Visible minorities will continue to buy Silicon Valley products/services just like everyone else, regardless of whether they employ visible minorities or not.

 

We don't really care who's making the technology as long as it works and is good quality. As I say time and time again, the problem isn't with ones actions. It's the ideologies. Ideologies exist behind the actions. Change the ideologies and you change the actions. The mechanism isn't rocket science. The problem is getting the person to switch their ideologies from racist to non-racist. My long term solution is radical dualism. What's your solution?

 

Continued in Part 3.

 

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