On 9/28/14 6:07 PM, Wayne.B wrote:
On Sun, 28 Sep 2014 17:50:46 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:

On 9/28/14 5:29 PM, Wayne.B wrote:
On Sun, 28 Sep 2014 16:08:46 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:

And I'll bet some of your best friends are blacks and Jews.

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Quite a few of the Jewish faith as it turns out, and although I've
never had a black friend, I've beeen friendly with a number of black
colleagues, some of whom I hired.

snerk

Gosh, you hired black people. Condescending asshole.

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How many have you hired? My guess is none.



Going back to 1971, probably 20. Prior to that, I helped a client hire
about a dozen black college grads to train as mortgage brokers in the
markets where it was active. That client was the one purchased for cash
by Citibank for $30 a share when its stock was trading OTC for $5 a
share. I recruited and helped screen the applicants. The client did a
lot of business in the black community with black real estate brokers.

I first directly hired black professional staffers and support personnel
when I worked for the teachers union, and then again in about 1977 when
I was a consultant for a national postal employees union and hired and
supervised six organizers. Two were black and two were Latino. Then, as
a member of the national postal employees bargaining team for two
contracts, I hired another two black professionals. And since. Whenever
I was in a position to hire, I made sure I hired a diverse team of men,
women, black, Latinos, Asians, et cetera. In the 1990s, I got one of my
construction union clients to hire a black editor for its newspaper and
newsletters.

Oh, maybe I should mention that when I was in high school, one of my
several "steady" girlfriends (consecutive, not simultaneous) was black.
In college, I dated a wider variety of girls of different skin colors,
religions and ethnicity, the most unusual (for me, a Connecticut Yankee)
a beautiful, blue-eyed blonde Mennonite young lady.