I didn’t know most of the people named as minority influencers were non-white (with the exception of Microsoft’s Satya Nadella). I read every blog post by Drumm

I didn’t know most of the people named as minority influencers were non-white (with the exception of Microsoft’s Satya Nadella). I read every blog post by Drummond and I had no idea he was African American. These are thought leaders who, like Neil deGrasse Tyson, are not “expert about being black” and I think they do a lot more good than Jesse Jackson. I’m not saying there isn’t a problem -- but the solution seems to me that it should come through a system that allows a candidate to say: “There are rumors my skillset is going through a shortage. I believe I have been discriminated against by the recruitment process (no matter what that was: if you list grievances, too young, too old, too female, too male, too nerdy, too black, etc. they pretty much define a pavement of all job seekers) and it doesn’t matter. Give me a job, tell me what I can learn to be the ideal candidate, or sh-t the f-ck -p.” I haven’t been to San Francisco a lot, but everytime I was shocked by the amount of candidates throwing their CV at me; they were of every age, color, skillset and gender that I could think of. I represented a company based in Europe and they complained that European companies do not open offices in SF fast enough to hire the local talent… (which came out as… well, mind-blowing self-serving and unworldly to me). I hate to ask but… Is he really going after a guy called Gomez about diversity in power positions? And I’m sur HP was iconic when Jesse Jackson was more active, but… isn’t there more iconic companies around? They might not have public shareholder meetings.