This has been going around for a few days, but deserves another run through:
progressiveinaction (67 posts) Fri Jun-24-11 02:04 PM
Original message
Damn I love Kieth Olbermann but.
Look at his staff! Keith, would it be a problem to get a minority or two on the staff?
Bladian (66 posts) Fri Jun-24-11 02:05 PM
Response to Original message
1. I guess I don't see why it's a problem, really
Those are the people on his staff. That's how the stars aligned. What's the issue?
arcane1 (1000+ posts) Fri Jun-24-11 02:11 PM
Response to Reply #6
11. Another possibility...
is that he hired the best candidates, and their racial makeup was irrelevant to the decision?
Hiring the best candidates is illegal.
Taverner (1000+ posts) Fri Jun-24-11 02:24 PM
Response to Reply #13
31. How would a Young Barack Obama look in that picture?
Chances are, you'd be hard pressed to identify him as an African American
So there might be more minorities there than we think
DUmmy Taverner could not pick out a young Kenyan in a crowd of Norwegians.
valerief (1000+ posts) Fri Jun-24-11 02:27 PM
Response to Reply #2
34. Maybe just 3 blacks, but a bunch more Latinos. And maybe they're all gay, too.
I think that's a near certainty.
Luminous Animal (1000+ posts) Fri Jun-24-11 02:12 PM
Response to Reply #5
14. Only nine women. Last time I looked, women comprise a bit more than half the population.
Yes, but most of the men are in the midst of gender reassignment. They are on probation until their dickectomy.
progressiveinaction (67 posts) Fri Jun-24-11 02:12 PM
Response to Reply #7
16. 2 out of 40 is good enough???
I expect more out of a progressive like Keith.
Deep13 (1000+ posts) Fri Jun-24-11 02:46 PM
Response to Reply #24
39. BZZZT! wrong.
First Al Gore is paying all of them. Second, we have a Civil Rights act in this country. Granted, you may have preferred the Constitution the way it was before the War of Northern Aggression, but as it is the 13th and 14th Amendments authorize such legislation.
Honestly, I see a few nonwhite people in there, so I guess I don't see the problem.
postulater (1000+ posts) Fri Jun-24-11 02:23 PM
Response to Original message
28. I see a couple, there's a guy with white hair and an overweight guy.
And they're both gay, too.