What do you expect from a minority hire?

Several papers did that including the Post. I'm not saying its right or wrong, I was just looking at the way the paper and others with Asian staffers, utilized them.
This was not a question to piss people off.

 

But again, why not provide that context in the original post? Boots still haven't answered that question.

 

It would make more sense to send those two radio guys who were fired for calling a Chinese restraunt and orderd shrimp fried lice......

 

Boots, come on. You were starting shit and you know it.

You gave no context whatsoever in your initial post, making a touchy subject to begin with into a train wreck.

And really, what is it with you referring to yourself in the first-person plural. ("We" being first-person plural, even though you thought it was third person on a previous thread.)

You want a serious answer? Give us a real contest in regards to the subject. Also, define "minority hire." Are you talking about every minority in the business? Are you talking about people hired only because they are a minority? (Sorry, touchy-feely folks. There are some of those out there.)

I disagree with you more often than not, boots, but the start of this thread was fraudulent, ill-conceived and poorly executed and you can do better.

 

I see your point. I just didn't do it that way. I thought, and still believe, we could have intelligent dialog on the thread without spelling everything out.

 

to answer your question, bootsie, the only thing different I expect out of a minority hire is that they will likely leave sooner than a majority hire.

 

In the same way that having a black NBA beat writer makes sense -- perhaps black basketball players, who make up the majority of the league, are more likely to respond, or will respond better, if the question comes from a face that looks like his own -- having Asian writers pursue certain stories on the VT thing made sense. I don't know if that's racist. Perhaps it is. But it also is an attempt to deal with the reality of human nature. I think the utilization might cross a line if that's the only thing a minority is allowed to do. If an Asian writer is pigeonholed on Asian subject matter with no opportunity to do anything else, you're really getting into sticky territory.

As for what I expect, like others here, I would expect them to be productive, just as I would anyone else.

 

Boots: serious question. How come every time you post a question like this it's about race? I'm not trying to start a shitstorm. But I can remember countless times when a thread was started by you that involves race. Why is this such a prevalent issue in your mind?

 

It's not a matter of spelling everything out. That initial post with no context is just inflamatory. And honestly, this board can't handle this subject in a civil manner anyway.

 

Especially not with Fenian posting pictures of flaming pickles ... oh, that's the Hindenburg. Never mind ...

 

I post a lot of questions from race to money to religion to sex. I think what bothers many, and I don't need a response, is that I say what others are thinking. I don't pull punches.