Tuesday, May 22, 2012

The Connected Capitalism of the DWL: Let's Have a Coke Party

Tea Party is so 1770s.

Coke Party will be the new vogue in the coming years.

Coca-Cola: The Official Soft-Drink of BRA
While reading Inside Coca-Cola: A CEO's Life Story of Building the World's Most Popular Brand by former Coke CEO Neville Isdell, a story from the chapter “Connected Capitalism” stood out and slapped me clear across the face.

It tells the story of a biracial gathering of Atlanta’s civic and religious leaders to honor Martin Luther King’s receiving of the Nobel Peace Prize. To be held in late January 1965, Coke patriarch Robert Woodruff “politely persuaded” Atlanta’s white business community to attend the event, for the event would have represented a “worldwide embarrassment for Coca-Cola and for Atlanta” had they no-showed:
The night of the dinner, King delivered to a standing-room only, integrated audience what would become one of his most famous quotes: “If people of good will of the white South fail to act now, history will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the vitriolic words and then the violent actions of the bad people but the appalling silence of and indifference of the good people.”


All segments of Atlanta society were there: churches and synagogues, government, private universities and business, all working together, as [Sam] Massell (Atlanta’s last white mayor) recalled, for their “mutual interest.” That is Connected Capitalism. (p. 213-215)
Connected Capitalism.

A perfect term for the actions of the Managerial Elite (Disingenuous White Liberals in perfectly tailored suits) who preside over Black-Run America, who no longer have any allegiance to a nation-state (any) that they have so busily deconstructed.

No Mr. King, history will not judge those “people of good will” you excoriated to get on their knees so as to allow Black people to jump on their backs, pocketing the loose change that falls from this noble gesture in the process.

After all, isn’t that what Connected Capitalism is?

We saw what Connected Capitalism was capable of in 1981, when the then stewards of Coca-Cola capitulated to Jesse Jackson (one of MLK’s right-hand men) over a threatened boycott. The late Lewis Grizzard, a columnist for the Atlanta Journal Constitution, wrote these words on the surrender:
When the Rev. Jesse Jackson of Operation PUSH took on Coca-Cola, I figured he had written a check his admittedly considerable power as a black leader couldn’t cash.
You might take on 7Up, but Coke is the big dog in the soft drink market. I fully expected Coke to flip Jesse Jackson off its back with one sweep of its powerful tail.


Either I underestimated Jackson or I overestimated Coca-Cola. The word came the other day that Coke had made a $30 million deal with Jackson to do more business with blacks.
Coke denied that Jackson’s threat to lead a black boycott of its products had anything to do with the deal. “We were going to do this all the time; we’re just no getting to around to it,” said a cokesperson.
Sure.
What Jesse Jackson did was as simple as a liquor-store heist: He blackmailed a huge American company into giving him what he wanted. Meet my demands, or I’ll snap my fingers and my loyal subjects won’t even say the words “Coca-Cola” until I tell them to.
What Jackson did to Coke was essentially the same: Come across, or else.

Coca-Cola kept paying Mr. Jackson tribute and sought his advice during the 1999-2000 racial discrimination suit against the company. The New York Times reported on November 17, 2000:

In the largest settlement ever in a racial discrimination case, the Coca-Cola Company agreed yesterday to pay more than $156 million to resolve a federal lawsuit brought by black employees.
The settlement also mandates that the company make sweeping changes, costing an additional $36 million, and grants broad monitoring powers to a panel of outsiders -- an unusual concession in employment discrimination cases.


The lawsuit, filed in April 1999, accused Coke of erecting a corporate hierarchy in which black employees were clustered at the bottom of the pay scale, averaging $26,000 a year less than white workers. As redress, the settlement provides as many as 2,000 current and former black salaried employees with an average of $40,000 in cash, while the four plaintiffs whose names are on the lawsuit will receive up to $300,000 apiece.


''It sets a new standard for corporate settlements,'' said the Rev. Jesse Jackson, referring to Coke's agreement to tie executives' salaries to how well the company meets its diversity goals. ''The internal cultures of companies have been built on patterns of exclusion based on gender and race. This is a step in the right direction.''
Despite the short-term costs, a negligible amount for a company with about $20 billion in sales last year, Coke officials and plaintiffs' lawyers characterized the settlement as a ''business necessity,'' particularly because minorities in the United States drink a disproportionate share of its sodas.
''This company had a credibility gap between the image that it cultivated with the African-American community on the outside and how African-Americans were treated on the inside,'' said Cyrus Mehri, a plaintiffs' lawyer who negotiated a $140 million cash settlement in a discrimination suit against Texaco in 1996.
While efforts by disgruntled Coke employees in Atlanta to start a boycott never crimped the company's bottom line, the lawsuit has troubled Coke for 18 months and, company officials acknowledge, tarnished the image of one of the world's best-known brands.

History will judge that the greatest tragedy of that period of social transition that Mr. King bemoaned was the capitulation of Connected Capitalism to BRA. Coca-Cola fell in line behind the pied-piper who touted a society where “content of character” mattered above all else; but a society based firmly on the promotion of Blackness was erected in its place.

Well, that, and the promotion of whites to the Managerial Elite who bow in delirious obsequiousness to this objective.

David Greising wrote about these types of white people in his biography of former Coke CEO Roberto Goizueta, in the book I'd Like the World to Buy a Coke: The Life and Leadership of Roberto Goizueta.

The wasted capital that could have gone to building infrastructure, research and development, cure diseases, and further space exploration instead was diverted to uplift a segment of the American population who remade Detroit into their image.

And Birmingham. And Memphis. And Baltimore. And Cleveland. And New Orleans.

Atlanta, the City too Busy to Hate, represents a gaping Black Hole that continually sucks in more and more resources and misplaced capital that is diverted from projects that could see an actual Return on Investment (ROI). In fact, a sales tax referendum on July 31 will see if a 10-year plan to collect taxes from 10-counties passes, which would result only in marginally reducing the worst traffic in America; all due to white people trying to escape Black people.

The ecological impact to the continued need to build new suburbs (and infrastructure to support this in terms of roads, sewage facilities, etc.) to escape the ever-widening reach of the Black Hole that is Atlanta is incalculable. The misplaced capital and investments (and opportunity costs) involved in this process fall in the same category.

No Dr. King, it is the appalling silence of and indifference of the good people now to the totality of the failure of BRA and the horrible consequences of those “people of good will of the white South” who did act on your behalf that history will record as the great tragedy.

We could have been on Mars, but instead, we have Detroit, circa 2012, and hundreds of other US cities well on their way to being Detroit-ed.

They represent the Sunk Cost of BRA; the ruins of Detroit represent actual manifestation of the good will of the white South fail to act now.

This is the real legacy of the Civil Rights movement.

This is the shame of “people of good will of the white South” whose legacy is the complete collapse of Birmingham and the turning of Atlanta into a Black Mecca that has been completely subsidized by white tax-dollars.

Freedom Failed.

Tea Party is so 1770s.

Coke Party will be the new vogue in the coming years.

57 comments:

Celebrate Homogeneity said...

I think, in the not too distant future, some company will stand up and just say "boycott all you want, and be as noisy about it as you want. See what it gets you!"

T. J. Rodgers at Cypress Semiconductor effectively did this to Jessie Jackson, and there was Sweet Fanny Adams that Jackson could do. Then again, Cypress Semi is not exactly a household name.

Let's see a well-known, household-name company do it. I am just crazy enough to think it can, and will happen.

FSR said...

Oklahoma shootings update:

It was a black guy.

Big shock, I know.


http://www.koco.com/news/oklahomanews/okc/Police-make-arrest-in-Oklahoma-City-Bricktown-shootings/-/11777584/13570216/-/5uev3v/-/index.html

Anonymous said...

Metro atlanta where we bring the inner city to the suburbs

FSR said...

There have been 8 homicides and 33 nonfatal shootings in Detroit over the past five days.

From The Detroit News:

May 22, 2012 at 5:17 pm

Detroit racks up eight killings, 33 shootings in last five days

Detroit — Even in one of the most violent cities in the United States, the past five days have been abnormally bloody.

There have been 8 homicides and 33 nonfatal shootings in Detroit over the past five days, and Detroit Police Chief Ralph Godbee acknowledged today that those numbers are higher than normal.

"We're swimming upstream from a violent crime standpoint," Godbee said. "As quickly as we arrest (criminals), someone commits another crime."

With crime dominating the local headlines and budget cuts looming, the Detroit City Council President Pro Tem Gary Brown, a former police officer, is suggesting restructuring the city's police department
.......

From The Detroit News:

http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120522/METRO01/205220397#ixzz1veIE3m00

uziman said...

http://news.yahoo.com/disappointed-obama-black-panthers-openly-consider-bullet-165110150.html


Disappointed in Obama, New Black Panthers openly consider ‘the bullet’


“The black community is at large no better off that (sic) before he was in office. We are curious as to what his agenda is for Black people in America and if he even has one,” Shabazz added.

Ummm... which President has he been watching. And just how fast is AG Holder gonna jump on this direct threat to the POTUS's life?

Anonymous said...

No more Coke products for me.

Zenster said...

It bears consideration regarding how Coca-Cola's knuckling under to race baiting wannabe warlord pimp Jesse Jackson both emboldened him and cemented his credentials as shakedown artiste extraordinaire.

Had Coca-Cola flipped "Jesse Jackson off its back with one sweep of its powerful tail", the trajectory of this career extortionist might have been entirely different.

After all, just how disproportionate could the consumption patterns of a small population segment like that of Black people be in terms of overall consumption of Coca-Cola products?

Blacks seem to prefer far more sweetened beverages like double-dosed Kool-Aid, sweet tea and their legendary "grape drank". Especially so back in the 1980s when, as I recall, food stamps could not yet be used to purchase sodas.

If avoiding high fructose corn sweetener wasn't enough reason by itself to halt consumption of most carbonated beverages, then boycotting Coca-Cola products for their shameless kowtowing to BRA is. Much as I, too, once enjoyed Coca-Cola, I will drink it even less frequently now.

Magnifico said...

Time for my family to boycott Coke-a-Cola. One family at a time.

Where are the bean counters for Coke. 20 billions in sale reports this article and negroes are 12% of our population. Unless my calculations are wrong that's $240 million in sales if blacks buy Coke in one year and the lawsuit cost Coke $200 million. That's almost a break even point assuming that court cost's are high.

It would have been easier to tell Jesse to fuck out.

Anonymous said...

I am in the process of leaving the Atlanta metro area for multiple reasons. At the present time I am applying for jobs in the city that my family will be relocating to.

I just finished submitting my resume to an established company, but there was a sentence at the bottom of the application page that has me confused. The statement was as follows:

***** is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer.

I think the above statement perfectly illustrates absurdity. How is it possible to have race-based employment practices and still call yourself and "Equal Opportunity Employer". If it was possible to retract my resume, then I would do so. I can only imagine the corporate culture nightmare that this company operates within.

Anonymous said...

I know the family directly descended from Esa Candler (the man who invented the Coke brand) and they would never let blacks dictate what the company does if they were still in control of it. If you look at the people who founded many of the great (or formerly great) companies before the 1960's, you would see a stark difference in the way they approached race than what the CEO's and such do today. Take for example the Ford Foundation... Mr. Ford definitely wouldn't approve of their liberal, non-American, and race-driven actions of today.

Swamp Fox said...

I'm a bit vague on it,but didn't Jesse,among other transgressions, try to shake somebody down who wouldn't play ball?Off the top of my head I'm going to say it was the Southland Corporation(7-11) who compiled a dossier on Jackson to head off his extortion attempt.Does anyone know any
specifics?
Along with Coca-Cola,Anheuser-Busch folded,also.Jesse's son ended up with a Chicagoland distributorship.

Zenster said...

Swamp Fox: I'm a bit vague on it,but didn't Jesse,among other transgressions, try to shake somebody down who wouldn't play ball?

It was, as Celebrate Homogeneity noted in this thread's first comment, T. J. Rodgers, CEO of integrated circuit manufacturer, Cypress Semiconductors.

Anonymous said...

A bit off topic but is everybody aware that currently there is a spacecraft in orbit that was launched by a rocket designed by an African immigrant?

Of course he's WHITE and from South Africa.

Anonymous said...

Connected Capitalism for Coke:

Have the government give negroes section 8 free housing, government jobs, free money and other free stuff. That way they will have some money left over to buy Coke's addictive, cancer and diabetes causing product.

You see, YT's tax dollars give the negroes moolah to buy crap from capitalists. That is how it is all connected.

Letters from Galt's Gulch said...

That famous punchline will have to be revised.

"I guess I'll have a Pepsi."

Bogolyubski said...

Glad to see you branching out into this area, PK. As with the whole opiate of sportz racket, there is a vast infrastructure supporting the existence and the advancement of BRA and its attendant black undertow. The folks who run the infrastructure are the elite DWLs - the one-percenters who are guilty of the twin capital crimes of treason and genocide for vast profit. Coca-Cola should be added to the list suitable targets.

Bogolyubski said...

Magnifico: Time for my family to boycott Coke-a-Cola. One family at a time.

Where are the bean counters for Coke. 20 billions in sale reports this article and negroes are 12% of our population. Unless my calculations are wrong that's $240 million in sales if blacks buy Coke in one year and the lawsuit cost Coke $200 million. That's almost a break even point assuming that court cost's are high.

It would have been easier to tell Jesse to fuck out.


There might be more to the story financially. For example, was CC in debt to the vampire-squids? Were they on the hook with them in some them way? The great market bottleneck is Wall Street - which is of course part of the plan. No stocks are sold, nor bonds - unless the mark of VS is upon one's hand and forehead. Just last year, His Holiness the Right Rev. St. Jesse the lesser adulterer was invited to speak to a squid confab by one of their biggest bloodsuckers: Lloyd 'Doin' God's Work' Blankfein of Goldman-Sachs. Both of the mountebank-ministers of BRA, the Revs. Jesse and Al, are quite popular in squidville, which was once referred to as "Hymietown" by His Holiness St. Jesse. Funny how he managed to completely skate on that one. If Billy Graham would have used a term like that, the FBI would have sent Lon Horiuchi to 'accidentally' blow his head off with a high-powered rifle.

Anonymous said...

Capitalists will always sell the rope that hangs them.

Anonymous said...

Southfox I am going to say it happened in Silicon Valley as well. He went shaking down all the big names you can think of and they him, politely of course, to f*** off back to under whatever rock he crawled out from under.

Anonymous said...

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/woman-charged-stabbing-2-canadian-tourists-deaths-atlantic-city-article-1.1082841

Anonymous said...

Russia is planning to build bases on the moon: http://blogs.nature.com/news/2012/05/russia-japan-aim-for-the-moon.html

Clearly they don't have a Negro population to deal with.

In fact, Russians know exactly how to treat Negro's: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=x1C_NWMRs8Q

Anonymous said...

Magnifico @ May 22, 2012 7:13 PM

Your calc's are wrong. Need to multiply by 10.

My calcs are at 13% and show 2.6 billion in revenue, which further divided by that 38 million blacks drink 7.123 million of coke a day!

Still, I seriously DOUBT most blacks can refrain from drinking something they are used to.

Blacks are not known for restraint as most are known to give in to their desires quite easily ...no? LOL

I would have rolled the dice myself but I dont have millions of share holders that may lynch me.

Had Coke-A-Cola told Jesse to hit the road, it would send a message round the globe, "We won't be bullied" & that has both good AND bad rapport.

Anonymous said...

All SBPDL readers should check out Colin Flaherty's book "WHITE GIRL BLEED A LOT," available at Amazon.com:

http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/

M.G. said...

Swamp Fox--
I'm pretty sure Southland paid up. Cypress Semiconductor definitely told JJ to pound sand, but I don't know if they prepared a dossier on him.

Not only Coca-Cola but Boeing has paid unbelievable sums of protection money to Jackson and Co., as outlined here:

http://www.adversity.net/c33_boeing.htm

I blogged on this subject this week ('Hunting the Yeti: Institutional Racism in the 21st Century'), and it is truly impressive to see how the tables have turned: Once legitimately excluded, Afros in America today are praised, pandered to, and paid off in the way one would an occupying army. It would be interesting to add up all the danegeld coughed up since 1965; it's no doubt an astounding sum.

Re: Jesse and the shakedown game, this quote from Booker T. Washington (1911) hasn't aged a bit:

'There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs – partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.'

Excellent work as always, Paul K. You continue to open eyes daily.

M.G.
Those Who Can See

Anonymous said...

When and if we can stop drinking HFCS that will be a major day. The stuff degrades cognitive function in rats, and being overweight contributes any number of negative physical and psychological issues.

"After all, just how disproportionate could the consumption patterns of a small population segment like that of Black people be in terms of overall consumption of Coca-Cola products?"

They were worried about dwls not buying coke, and they need not have. it is quite addictive, and it takes serious impulse control to stop addiction. There is no way any group that would get up in arms over them telling bra to pound sand has any of that.

"I guess I'll have a Pepsi."
Even worse unfortunately.

Stuff Black People Don't Like said...

Pepsi and Coke compete to be the most left-wing company.

Don't buy either product. Seriously.

Wulfram said...

Anonymous said...

No more Coke products for me.

May 22, 2012 6:53 PM

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Anonymous, you will be (stunned) at how much Coca Cola owns. Good luck on not (buying) any of (their) products.

The Coca-Cola Company Product List
http://www.thecoca-colacompany.com/brands/product_list_o.html

Jeff! said...

Regarding Zenster's comment about grape drank, Coke does make Fanta, a line of.. I'll say fruit inspired soft drinks, grape and orange included.

To Anon- Was this White African on the rocket or capsule design? As I understand it, the two activites were pretty much seperated. Either way, I'd love someone to break that news to a black. The switch from pride in a "fellow african" to rage at YT would be instantaneous.

About the Affirmitive action/Equal Opportunities notice: I missed out on a job once because the final question of the interview was "Why is diversity important in the workplace?" I didn't say anything.. incorrect, but my 'you've got to be shitting me' face didn't help.

As for Coke, well, how much of Coke's sales are to fellow 365Black company McDonald's?

Lex32 said...

Letters from Galt's Gulch said...

That famous punchline will have to be revised.

"I guess I'll have a Pepsi."


AP WASHINGTON -- Pepsi Beverages Co. has agreed to pay $3.1 million to settle federal charges of race discrimination for using criminal background checks to screen out job applicants -- even if they weren't convicted of a crime.

They have also paid Jesse Jackson in the past.

I much prefer my own homemade sweet tea to any of that garbage anyway.


Semper Fi in Mississippi

Lex32 said...

In non related news has everyone witness the negro worship with the finale of Dancing with the Stars?

Makes me want to puke.

The negro-worship propaganda coming out of Hollyweird would make Geobbels envious of their ability to influence the sheep.

Google Donald Driver.

white flight said...

If anyone needs another reason to stop drinking coke, here's one. I stopped drinking coke 2 months ago. I have slept like a baby every night since then. I was a two to three coke a day drinker for years and suffered consistent insomnia. I'm convinced that the ingredients in coke were responsible for it. Maybe I should look for a lawyer.

W74 said...

"The lawsuit, filed in April 1999, accused Coke of erecting a corporate hierarchy in which black employees were clustered at the bottom of the pay scale, averaging $26,000 a year less than white workers. As redress, the settlement provides as many as 2,000 current and former black salaried employees with an average of $40,000 in cash, while the four plaintiffs whose names are on the lawsuit will receive up to $300,000 apiece."

I wonder what they did with all of that money. Surely they invested it back into their own communities, tithed their churches and/or otherwise used that money to obtain better housing or stashed it away in some mutual funds.

Surely that must be the case, for anyone who is a supporter of Jesse Jackson is a both a steward of wealth and a benefactor to their community.

Anonymous said...

Hansen's soda. Real sugar, real ingredients.

Alex Jones broke pepsi's use of fetal tissue bieng used for flavoring.

Zenster said...

Jeff!: As for Coke, well, how much of Coke's sales are to fellow 365Black company McDonald's?

Great question!

According to the 1995 book McDonalds - Behind the Arches, if the food franchise's global purchasing of Coca-Cola syrup was rated as a separate nation, McDonald's would rank ninth among all other countries.

Since it is available as a free download, I strongly urge people to capture this entertaining and useful book. While it was written with the company's permission and can seem a bit too glowing at times, in every chapter there is at least one nugget of managerial or business information that you can take to the bank.

The book's first chapter contains some statistics that, as quoted, one Price, Waterhouse, Cooper executive mentioned "simply did not compute". Such as: (circa 1995)

The ketchup used by McD's would fill the Mississippi River several times.

In any major American urban center there is a McD's within less than three minutes driving time.

McD's has trained more people than the US Army.

One in seven people got their first job at McD's.

Moreover, McD's single-handedly invented the frozen French fry, the fish sandwich and the cryogenically frozen beef patty. Dubious though those achievements might seem, in their time, they revolutionized the fast food industry.

One thing is certain, Ray Kroc, (who once fired an account executive for wearing white socks), would never have tolerated TNB for a millisecond. The original McD's was a boots-on-the-ground organization of people, often without college degrees, that typically consisted of franchise owners and onetime operators.

Most poignant, is how this book chronicles the transition of McD's board of directors from being populated by seasoned owner-operators over to a clusterf&%k of the current executive gold standard; Harvard MBAs. This was personally confirmed to me by a contractor I once met, who had worked building McD outlets for many years.

McD's original strategy changed the landscape of fast food franchises. Unlike Chicken Delight and Dairy Queen, McD's did not try to derive the majority of their profit from selling foodstuffs to their operators. Instead, McD's got most of their revenue from renting the property that the restaurants were built upon. Their careful process of site selection (i.e., near freeway off ramps, left turn access into a parking lot with more than one entrance, corner locations, etc.) was a brilliant way of popularizing the McD product without milking outlet owners like the last cow on the farm.

In fact, when McD's became supreme in the industry, one of their biggest pushes was to buy back those locations that owned their own property. That is how crucial the land-ownership strategy was to McD's profitability.

Again, download and read this amazing book. Kroc was a milkshake machine salesman who saw and understood what he was seeing when he witnessed the McDonald brothers operating their first Southern California location (with lines around the block), and took the idea to the global market in ways that most other companies only can dream about. And he did much of it on a handshake basis.

Some final anecdotes. Kroc approached Kraft about making a cheese single that had a richer gold color to look more like real Cheddar. Kraft scoffed at the presumptious request of this, then, small time business owner. Many years later Kraft had crawl back to Kroc on its knees to get the McD account.

When Kroc needed paper products he went to one small company (Lily?) and made a handshake deal with them. This company's loyalty allowed them to hold the McD's account for decades, making millionaires out of their executives in the process.

All in all a great read about, what was once, a real American business icon now fallen far from its original stature.

Anonymous said...

No, look for a psychologist instead. Honestly, i think your problem is genetically mental in nature.

bubo said...

Dammit. I love Coke. I really like the glass bottles you can get from Sam's Club. The ones made in Mexico with real sugar, not high-fructose corn syrup.

I remember watching a fascinating show on a Coke bottling plant. Everyone that worked there was white. It was a marvel. Everything moved like clockwork. Glass bottles being filled and shipped, no fat black women loafing around. Of course, this plant was in Spain.

I simply don't understand why these companies pander so damn much to blacks. If every black in the US boycotted Coke, It wouldn't be noticed at all. You can literally go into any nation on this planet and get a Coke product. I just don't understand.

Big Bear said...

Anonymous said...

No more Coke products for me.

May 22, 2012 6:53 PM

No more advertised products should be the rule. Not only are non-advertised products cheaper, but advertising is the source of revenue for the Federal Bureau of Propaganda (MSM).

Boycott all of the system's brands. Most of these companies are also major political contributors. Buy locally, buy nothing on credit.

Stop supporting the System and its pimps.

Anonymous said...

Re: the post from Jeff! from May 23, 2012 9:15 AM:

It's me, the Affirmative Action/EOE guy.

I would love to hear what your response was regarding the "Why is diversity important in the workplace" interview question.

I hope that I don't get a question like that. Bullshitting is not one of my better strengths so I am sure that my response would prevent me from being offered the job.

My best bet may be to play ignorant, such as:

1) What do you mean by "diversity"?

2) Would you please explain what it means to you first?

3) I don't understand the question?

4) Diverse? Like having humans do the job instead of cloned Storm Troopers?

5) I love having women in the workplace.

6) As a European-American, I want to see more of my Irish brethren.

Jeff! said...

Interesting, Zenster. I've been looking for something to readwhile I'm airborne this holiday weekend, I'll see about downloading that.

Jeff! said...

Turning the question back on the interviewer might not be a bad idea in that situation. As for my response, I mostly hemmed and hawed and threw together something about 'varied viewpoints' and "approaches to problem solving". Not a breath about race/ethnic origin.

I did get a job there a few weeks later, after interveiwing for a different opening. I was prepared for the diversity question that time!

And once I was there, damn. As your original comment on Affirmative action insinuated, you really can't have any sort of equality with that in place. Fresh out of college hires were all minorities, and mostly black at that. Where I was at it was sort of schizoid. About 10 years ago, this company was bought out by a West Coast company. So high up decisions were very..Liberal, especially with regards to hiring. The experienced supervisors and low-level managers are from the old company, and have little patience and less respect for the BRA type policies.

Big Bear said...

Not surprisingly, the cops are expecting trouble in Miami over Memorial Day. The comments on this article from Those Who See are spot on.

http://www.local10.com/news/Police-face-criticism-over-reported-arrest-quota/-/1717324/13708092/-/u7tpfpz/-/index.html

Letters from Galt's Gulch said...

For the record, that wasn't an endorsement of Pepsi. Just a wisecrack. If you're going to drink soda drink Hansen's. I gave it up altogether long ago and have never looked back.

The overwhelming majority of the biggest "food" (read edible trash) producers are Connected Capitalists and our enemies. Why pay them to poison our society along with our bodies?

Eat like a caveman. Look up "Nutrition in 100 Words".

So CAL Snowman said...

Coke and Pepsi are pretty toxic. Actually just about any beverage that is high in sugar is terrible for you.

Soda's Health Risks: How Bad Is It Really

Coke & Pepsi Make Changes to Avoid CANCER Warning

Apparently coke & pepsi (and everyone else) use a product called 4 - Methylimidazole in the caramel coloring which has been shown to cause CANCER and REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY in animals.

Also avoid DIET SODA like the plague. Diet soda contains the ridiculously toxic and LETHAL sweetener known as Aspartame

Well I'm off to the store for a pack of lucky strikes, a 2 liter of Mountain Dew, and a bag of doritos.

So CAL Snowman said...

Why do Black people even go to church? Do they think they are fooling God?

Whitey Whiteman III said...

"We saw what Connected Capitalism was capable of in 1981, when the then stewards of Coca-Cola capitulated..."

You alliterated the hell out of that.

Anonymous said...

Elon Musk was the white South African immigrant that founded Spacex, which earlier this week launched the spacecraft into orbit. It is unmanned on this flight which will carry supplies to the space station. Later flights will be manned.

Musk is the chief designer of both the rocket and spacecraft. His ultimate goal is to make human travel to Mars feasible.

Big Bear said...

Zenster: Informative post on McDonalds; however, I must point out that the frozen french fry was a product of the Boise-based JR Simplot company, particularly a chemist named Ray Dunlap, in 1953.

Like the Lily story, Simplot and Ray Kroc had a handshake deal in 1967 giving Simplot the rights to supply french fries to McDonalds. Idaho license plates still display the motto: Famous Potatoes.

Kroc's legacy lives on in the Kroc Community Centers, one of which is in Coeur d'Alene, far from potato country in north Idaho.

To point, I don't support either Coca-Cola, McDonalds, or any company that advertises heavily in the system media. I will buy bags of Idaho russet potatoes, though.

Anonymous said...

THANKS PAUL:

Stuff Black People Don't Like said...

Pepsi and Coke compete to be the most left-wing company.

Don't buy either product. Seriously.

BOYCOTT COMPANIES THAT HAVE ANTIWHITE ADS AND POLICIES..
I shop at Macys,,but now with their
'whites dont appply for schoalarships'....yuk
I go to LA/westwood Macys....they hire non whites, alot

YIH said...

Another fairly well-known blogger has his take on the attack by People™ in Denver near Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.
Complete with ''as real as NBC'' 911 call ;)

Anonymous said...

@bubo

I discovered that the Coke made in the US does contain cane sugar if it is kosher since the high fructose is not kosher lol

When I wasin Spain a very long time ago and Franco was still in office you couldn't get Coke because they thought it contained drugs.Coke actually still is flavoured with coca leaf but the cocaine is extracted first and is probably just used in medicine.

Ray Kroc's widow was very wealthy of course and when she died she left 1.7 Billion dollars (yes a billion!) to the Salvation Army, the largest charitable donation ever.I'm not religious but for some reason I trust these people in the Army.Certainly better than some endowment or "charity" where the directors take large salaries and little goes to actual charity.

Zenster said...

Big Bear: Zenster: Informative post on McDonalds; however, I must point out that the frozen french fry was a product of the Boise-based JR Simplot company, particularly a chemist named Ray Dunlap, in 1953.

Thank you for clarifying about J. R. Simplot. His story is amazing and, as I recall, covered to some degree in the book I mention. However, McDonald's also did extensive research into the frozen French fry, to the extent of inserting thermocouples into fries while they cooked in the oil.

Prior to introduction of frozen fries, McDonald's also obliged potato suppliers to change their method of distribution because of how fresh potatoes have a different balance of starch to moisture compared to ones that have been dry aged. Simplot and other potato suppliers had to create storage cellars in order to provide the best French fry spuds.

Zenster said...

In another vein (or clogged artery, as the case may be), I thoroughly commend your strategy of not supporting heavily advertised products. There was some other short book about food, themed much like "Nutrition in 100 Words" (hat tip: Letters from Galt's Gulch), that tersely advised, "Do not eat anything you see advertised on television".

Quite simply, for a food product to reach the level of being advertised on television, it must be so preprocessed, shelf stabilized, preserved and reduced in COG (Cost of Goods) that what you are being fed has little semblance to actual food.

[to be continued]

Zenster said...

As an example, check out this article about "12 Processed Foods With More Than 25 Ingredients"

There are 33 ingredients just in a Big Mac's sauce alone.

Soybean oil, pickle relish [diced pickles, high fructose corn syrup, sugar, vinegar, corn syrup, salt, calcium chloride, xanthan gum, potassium sorbate (preservative), spice extractives, polysorbate 80], distilled vinegar, water, egg yolks, high fructose corn syrup, onion powder, mustard seed, salt, spices, propylene glycol alginate, sodium benzoate (preservative), mustard bran, sugar, garlic powder, vegetable protein (hydrolyzed corn, soy and wheat), caramel color, extractives of paprika, soy lecithin, turmeric (color), calcium disodium EDTA

[to be continued]

Zenster said...

The real mind bender is KFC's chicken pot pie which contains an incredible +100 ingredients:

Chicken stock, potatoes (with sodium acid pyrophosphate to protect color), carrots, peas, heavy cream, modified food starch, contains 2 percent or less of wheat flour, salt, chicken fat, dried dairy blend (whey, calcium caseinate), butter (cream, salt), natural chicken flavor with other natural flavors (salt, natural flavoring, maltodextrin, whey powder, nonfat dry milk, chicken fat, ascorbic acid, sesame oil, chicken broth powder), monosodium glutamate, liquid margarine (vegetable oil blend [liquid soybean, hydrogenated cottonseed, hydrogenated soybean], water, vegetable mono and diglycerides, beta carotene), roasted garlic juice flavor (garlic juice, salt, natural flavors), gelatin, chicken pot pie flavor (hydrolyzed corn, soy and wheat gluten protein, salt, vegetable stock [carrot, onion, celery], maltodextrin, flavors, dextrose, chicken broth), sugar, mono and diglycerides, spice, seasoning (soybean oil, oleoresin turmeric, spice extractives), parsley, citric acid, caramel color, yellow 5, enriched flour bleached (wheat flour, niacin, ferrous sulfate, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), hydrogenated palm kernel oil, water, nonfat milk, maltodextrin, salt, dextrose, sugar, whey, natural flavor, butter, citric acid, dough conditioner, l-cysteine hydrochloride, potassium sorbate and sodium benzoate (preservatives), colored with yellow 5 & red 40. Fresh chicken marinated with: salt, sodium phosphate and monosodium glutamate. Breaded with: Wheat flour, salt, spices, monosodium glutamate, leavening (sodium bicarbonate), garlic powder, natural flavorings, citric acid, maltodextrin, sugar, corn syrup solids, with not more than 2 percent calcium silicate added as an anti caking agent OR Fresh chicken marinated with: Salt, sodium phosphate and monosodium glutamate. Breaded with: Wheat flour, salt, spices, monosodium glutamate, corn starch, leavening (sodium bicarbonate), garlic powder, modified corn starch, spice extractives, citric acid, and 2 percent calcium silicate added as anticaking agent OR Fresh chicken marinated with: Salt, sodium phosphate and monosodium glutamate. Breaded with: Wheat flour, sodium chloride and anticaking agent (tricalcium phosphate), nonfat milk, egg whites, Colonel's Secret Original Recipe Seasoning OR potato starch, sodium phosphate, salt, Breaded with: Wheat flour, sodium chloride and anti-caking agent (tricalcium phosphate), nonfat milk, egg whites, Colonel's Secret Original Recipe Seasoning OR potato starch, sodium phosphate, salt Breaded with: Wheat flour, salt, spices, monosodium glutamate, leavening (sodium bicarbonate), garlic powder, natural flavorings, citric acid, maltodextrin, sugar, corn syrup solids, with not more than 2 percent calcium silicate added as an anticaking agent OR potato starch, sodium phosphate, salt Breaded with: Wheat flour, salt, spices, monosodium glutamate, corn starch, leavening (sodium bicarbonate), garlic powder, modified corn starch, spice extractives, citric acid, and 2 percent calcium silicate added as anticaking agent OR seasoning (salt, monosodium glutamate, garlic powder, spice extractives, onion powder), soy protein concentrate, rice starch and sodium phosphates. Battered with: Water, wheat flour, leavening (sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium bicarbonate, monocalcium phosphate), salt, dextrose, monosodium glutamate, spice and onion powder. Predusted with: Wheat flour, wheat gluten, salt, dried egg whites, leavening (sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium bicarbonate), monosodium glutamate, spice and onion powder. Breaded with: Wheat flour, salt, soy flour, leavening (sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium bicarbonate), monosodium glutamate, spice, nonfat dry milk, onion powder, dextrose, extractives of turmeric and extractives of annatto. Breading set in vegetable oil

Anyone putting that amount of crap into their body has to have some sort of death wish.

Anonymous said...

Jeff! -

Thanks for the reply and I'm glad you were able to find employment, even though the culture you described can be a waking nightmare.

It sounded like your answer to the original interview question was a good answer - the "problem solving" and "differing points of view" . It certainly wasn't bad by any means. It's tough to control body language, however, which I am sure interiewers are trying to read.

I'm not in a position to be too picky at the present time, so I will likely have to work in a corporate environment for a while, but, for me, nothing beats a smaller company that does not feel compelled to advertise such conflicting policies (e.g. Affirmative Action + Equal Opportunity Employment).

Anonymous said...

Zenster @ 9:17 AM

...death wish.

The original Paul Kersey. Good one.

Discard said...

Bubo at 12:36 AM: Ray Kroc's widow also gave a pile of money to "People For the American Way", a crew of leftist scum. I suppose they've paid all that cash to themselves as salaries, as I've not heard from them in years.