What do you expect from a minority hire?

It's not a legitimate question completely out of context. Just asking what you'd expect out of an employee simply because he/she is black is subversively racist. It implies there are different standards for white people and minorities, almost like it's a bonus if the minority does his/her job well. And that is just fucking stupid.

 

Yeah, but we can't help but slow down and keep looking.

 

Serious reply - I would expect no more or no less than I expect from the white males working for me.

SJ reply - WTF caused you start this thread?

 

Did you really think that you were going to get an answer to that question the way you wrote your first post?

 

Clever, we're not picking a fight but that obviously happened with Va. Tech and it happens with other stories where race is concerned. Editors go to their minority reporters to get stories.

 

First off, who's "we"? Second, why didn't you provide the context? Why not ask what you want to ask, rather than asking a generalized idiotic question that you knew would piss people off? Why not actually, for once, you know, start an actual discussion and not just throw gasoline on the wall and see who drops the first match?

 

what papers did that bootsie? what were the asian reporters doing before that, solving IT problems?

 

I'm going to quit interviewing minorities (for stories) at my job, since I'm obviously not qualified to talk or write about them in Boots' eyes.

 

I expect my minority hires to mow my lawn, weed my garden and cook my burritos.

 

I expect them to post trollish questions on a message board.

 

buh... buh.. buh... I just wanted a legitimate answer to a legitimate question.. .no need for name calling. The madness has to stop. When I'm done backpedaling, you guys can answer the question again and again because I'll never stop trying to find it....

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