Harris could become first Black woman, first person of South Asian descent to be president
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She’s already broken barriers, and now Kamala Harris could soon become the first Black woman and the first person of South Asian descent to head a major party's presidential ticket after President Joe Biden’s ended his reelection bid.

She’s already broken barriers, and now Kamala Harris could shatter several more after President Joe Biden abruptly ended his reelection bid and endorsed her.

Biden announced Sunday that he was stepping aside after a disastrous debate performance catalyzed fears that the 81-year-old was too frail for a second term.

Harris is the first woman, Black person or person of South Asian descent to serve as vice president. If she becomes the Democratic nominee and defeats Republican candidate Donald Trump in November, she would be the first woman to serve as president.

Biden said Sunday that choosing Harris as his running mate was “the best decision I’ve made” and endorsed her as his successor.

  • CableMonster@lemmy.ml
    17·
    3 months ago

    So if you looked at the top 100 companies, how many white people do they hire now? They are directly not hiring white people, this is just a fact, if you dont like it then maybe you shouldnt be advocting for crazy policies based on what people look like.

      • CableMonster@lemmy.ml
        24·
        3 months ago

        Bloomberg did not me and its in 2021 the S&P 100 hired about 300k people, and 94% of them were POC.

        • AA5B@lemmy.world
          3·
          3 months ago

          So it looks like you’re talking about this

          While it does make that claim, you might also note phrases like:

          That still leaves most companies in our dataset lopsided, with White people holding a disproportionate share of high-paying jobs at S&P 100 companies

          Many laid off in the pandemic’s early days were people of color, who were rehired when demand bounced back.

          Retirements also surged that year, and older workers are more likely to be White.

          Note also they define “people of color” as “black, Asian, Hispanic, or other”

          So the article that makes that claim basically says non-whites had been laid off and were re-hired. Pre-dominantly white people were able to retire early, and people of color are still way underrepresented in positions of authority

          • CableMonster@lemmy.ml
            23·
            3 months ago

            Are you claiming that this data does not show preferential hiring of POC over white people?

            • AA5B@lemmy.world
              3·
              3 months ago

              I am just reading beyond the headline.

              I see that they describe this as a one time reaction to the recovery after Covid and is hiring back the mainly non-whites who had been laid off. Most importantly they included lots of data about how non-whites are still way underrepresented relative to the actual population after this one time event.

              So, no it does not. It appears to be showing a preference for employees who had been previously laid off

              • CableMonster@lemmy.ml
                14·
                3 months ago

                This is just silly, the hiring represents 1/10 or so of the white to their representation there is no way slightly higher rates of non-whites being laid off would account for this unless they laid off exclusively non white people or specifically chose white people to hire back. To believe this you would have to show some crazy statistics on the front end of who they laid off.

                Why isnt the much more logical thing that happened that they have DEI programs that puts a higher demand on hiring non-white applicants?

                • AA5B@lemmy.world
                  1·
                  3 months ago

                  There are lots of possible things that happened and they did not have data for any of them.

                  • Why jump right to all those companies conspiring to have DEI off the rails … for what end? What motivation would there be? Why are they all doing it?
                  • even if it were DEI, the report did give supporting data that it was inadequate. Do you really believe all the Fortune 100 companies conspired to go off the rails with DEI to hire almost all non-white, yet still be underrepresented in non-white employees? They have such power to compel all these big companies yet such incompetence to not succeed?
                  • The best we have is the reasons stated in the article, even without data - mostly a one time event hiring back people who had been laid off, who were predominantly non-white.

                  These inconsistencies also make clear this data was cherry-picked to provoke a reaction. Try again.

                  • CableMonster@lemmy.ml
                    12·
                    3 months ago

                    So long story short, do you believe that there was no preferential higher of non-white applicants over black applicants? This is a simple yes or no answer.

    • octopus_ink@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      Unsubstantiated assertion of fact, submitted in argument with a position I didn’t take, as expected. Like I said, maybe someone else wants to have a tiresome conversation about basic reality with you that will end with you strutting around like you’ve won something no matter how it actually unfolds, but I’m not that guy.

      • CableMonster@lemmy.ml
        26·
        3 months ago

        If you wanted the data, sure I just had to do a quick google to remember the actual numbers. So in 2021 the the S&P 100 hired about 300k people, and 94% of them were POC. I get that its uncomfortable to see that sort of things happening, but those poor white that had a hard life have a much harder time getting a job because of their skin color.