Wayne Sutton has been asking venture-capital investors and Silicon Valley executives a question that’s not often broached here in the epicenter of the technology industry…

 

My comments on this:

It huts to see these things still pop up. Racism is still exercised. We still see the dilemma of the black guy or gal being looked down upon by the whites, or vice versa… and now to make it all worse, we add Latinos to the mix.

I think that everyone needs to start paying attention at what people is really worth. Not by how they look but, by how they act. This is one surefire way to measure anyone. By his/her actions. If a person puts his/her action where he/she puts his/her word, then that person’s value can be ascertained. I use value, not in the monetary sense, of course, life is not something to be put a price on.

However I mean is as in, how much you can count on this person. Because, if this person puts action where he puts words, then this person is trustworthy. This person does what he/she says will do. A person that tells you, “I will have that report ready in one hour”, and has the report ready in three hours, and gets it to you without a convincing reason or explanation for his/her tardiness, (within reasonable boundaries of course) then that person is not trustworthy. That person’s value has just gone down. It is not a person you will want working with you, because he/she will let you down.

If we are not measuring a person’s value like this, and we are doing it by face-value, because he’s white, and looks “pleasant” he must be a good worker.

Seems that is the way many HR peeps do their math when taking in new employees. Or investors when they select where to invest; does investing in a project managed by a white guy makes you feel more comfortable than investing in a project managed by a black guy? If you answer yes, you should be hearing the “That’s so racist!” bells by now.

 

Come on people. It is year 2011 (almost 2012).

GROW THE HELL UP!