Hey
it has been a while - work it mad ATM.
Anyway my friend asked me what I thought about diversity strategies encouraging companies to purchase services from businesses just because they are gay owned, and why I published this article on the website I edit.
Here is what I said - probably the most logical thing I am going to write tonight, so enjoy!
gay businesses: interestingly Stonewall ask that their workplace diversity champions ensure their suppliers have gay-friendly hiring policies, which I agree with
But just going to a business because its owner is gay is madness, and only in America would I back going to a business because its owner is from an ethnic minority
Most of the UK minorities seem to be doing quite well enough in business without our help.
This sort of action entrenches the ghettoisation of the gay community.
But just going to a business because its owner is gay is madness, and only in America would I back going to a business because its owner is from an ethnic minority
Most of the UK minorities seem to be doing quite well enough in business without our help.
This sort of action entrenches the ghettoisation of the gay community.
It always strikes me that people are shocked to find out that most of the people who write for PinkNews.co.uk are straight
Like a straight person could not get their head round the issues, like I would not, as a journalist, be able to go to write for the Jewish Chronicle and easily pick up what their issues where and become attuned to it.
I think businesses should be encouraged to be gay-friendly, but ownership is a ridiculous model on which to judge whether or not a company will be the best to fulfil a contract.
"For me that speech yesterday showed more than ever that this man can be a great president," you said in your email.
I agree 100% and you know I do - that is why I published it in full, at one in the morning, having just read it.
But a news organisation exists to challenge the accepted wisdom and to stimulate debate.
Duane, who wrote the obama piece, is a black gay American - I felt his points were valid, if only because everyone deserves a say, if only for their view to be shot down, as is already happening on our comment pages.
The race speech is, in my opinion, one of the defining speeches we have seen this century, and is already being talked about in those terms on the BBC, who do not throw around accolades like that very often.
I agree with your comments about leadership and "qualifications"
Those that think leadership is about being experienced, go to Iraq and tell that to the 20 year old officers who lead our troops into danger every day.
Unfortunately, the sense I get is that the Hillary lady is going to work her black magic and snatch the nomination, back room style, before the convention - and then attempt to make obama take the VP slot.
But, in the unlikely story that is America, there is nothing false about hope! After all, JFK and Teddy Roosevelt made it to the White House by appealing to exactly the same values as Obama.
So there.
