Tyler Perry Talks Diversity Push Concerns

I was only in it for the derailment...

I tried to make it peaceful.

You made a racist troll. Yes, you can sound peaceful insulting black people, but it is not peaceful you fucking racist douche.

but you knew that

I can't believe someone is making that argument in a Star Trek spin-off board of all places, where Rick fucking Berman rather notoriously failed up into his position because every other person who knew Trek, had passion for Trek or had anything more than one failed PBS producer credit to their name got sick of Roddenberry's bitterness and primadonna bullshit left TNG by season 2.

Like, we were all alive when Enterprise aired.

I've heard it said that true equality is when people give accolades to mediocre minorites the same as they would to mediocre white men. It don't get and more mid than Tyler Perry.

Wow you're really upset about black Ariel, aren't you?

To be fair, I didn't care for the white washing Ronald D. Moore did with Colonel Tigh. That was just a diversity hire to get more Canadians on the show for the tax credits. Affirmative action at its finest.

Imagine being born with white privilege and a trust fund but still ending up a part-time assistant sandwich artist. Who among us wouldn't blame affirmative action and probably communism?

In this thread FF basically calls out his misunderstanding of what affirmative action is without actually using those exact words.

Funny enough, the reason we have affirmative action was due to a white dude at UC Davis being made than an Indian kid took "his" spot at medical school and the court just decided to codify that.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regents_of_the_University_of_California_v._Bakke

White men played themselves

Oh, and looking at that case, out of 100 seats, they reserved a whopping 16 for minority students at the time.

What? No. That was Jenee’s version of Affirmative Action getting struck down as unconstitutional. Affirmative Action goes back to the Kennedy and Johnson administrations and took several forms, including the illegal quota system.

The blow hard long winded version of what i just paraphrased will be forthcoming because some people just love to hear themselves talk.

Yeah, it goes back at least that far, depending on how you define it.

The term first shows up in the 30s for the National Labor Relations Board. Employers were firing people who joined unions. This required affirmative action to rehire union workers. So not having to do with minority status or gender, but definitely addressing discrimination.

There were some policies in regard to hiring of former slave workers as many of them were unskilled all the way back in Reconstruction during with Johnson's Freedman's Bureau.