African-American sports writers! Dissertation help needed!

I simply quoted you, who said it's tough feeling sympathy for white males who complain they're being discriminated against as well as knowing what YOUR family has gone through and continue to go through.

Other people can feel the sting of discrimination; it's not all about you and your family.

 

ok. i give up. i don't want to go in circles with you. seriously.

 

This arguement just makes me think of the South Park season premier. "Some people just don't get it."
Personally, I'm still waiting to land one of these cushy jobs that people keep writing about that are being given away to minorities like food at a soup kitchen.

 

I have no plan on it either.

 

Seriously, have you tried Gannett? Not that Gannett is a dream organization but their papers generally do get better the bigger they get ... start with some of the mid-sized dailies and after a couple of years of solid work you could find yourself in Cincy or Detroit, etc.

 

A tried Gannett and fuckin hated it. With all the cuts they seem to have each year, I feared for my job. That sucked.
Plus, they have that rule where your supervisor has to sign off on you to even apply for another Gannett gig, and our EE didn't have a history of helping people move on or up. He was actually a roadblock.

 

You've got a good point ... my paper was the same way, only had one person in my five years move to another paper within the company ... I wonder if I know you ...

 

quite possible. But unfortunately, it's like this at most Gannett papers.

 

What's sad is that this is 2007. Many million watched the NCAA tournament. The performers were African American. Yet, those who interviewed the participants were not African American.
You've got the Masters going on down the road in Augusta. The top participant is African American (even if he calls himself something else). Yet, the number of African Americans covering the even might not make 10.
You want more minorities, the answer is simple - HIRE THEM.

 

Though I don't believe it to be as simple as going out and "HIRE THEM" implies ... I do follow your train of thought on this. ... SEs who spend the time to recruit and make themselves known through NABJ and AWSM, I would say, tend to have more diversity on staff.

Unfortunately, some - maybe many if applicable - SEs don't put in the energy it takes to recruit minorities, yet they seem to be the ones bitching that blacks and women aren't flocking to their departments.

My paper's sports department has one African-American and a few women. Is that dispropotionate to the entire department? Sure. But it's a helluva lot better than the all-white and all-male staffs present at my previous jobs.

 

The minority candidates aren't like looking for a four-leaf clover. Than can be found. The truth is SE's, ME's and EE's don't want to get up off their asses.

 

amen to that, Boots.
The flip of that is, as an SE, it's hard finding minority candidates and it's quite easy to give up on the thought.
We had an opening at my last shop and not one minority candidate applied. Here it is a year later, and they went from four minorities to zero.