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the company i work for has it's own intranet web page for its employees. all corporate employees, and those at sotres and warehouses and such have access to this site (this equates to thousands upon thousands of people). on this website's front page is always a poll. the poll stays up for a couple weeks and normally has to do with something holiday, news, or company related. now it often is about as worthless as a naked picture of ernest borgnine, but it's normally not offensive. not until the current one.
so, wednesday, on my first day into work for the week i see it...
Which icon of black history do you most admire?
and here are the people they thought were worthy of note as ICONS in HISTORY who just happen to be black (mostly) - i'm also going to assume they meant american history.
Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Condoleezza Rice
Rosa Parks
Tiger Woods
Oprah Winfrey
Maya Angelou
MLK Jr? absolutely (and my vote obvioulsy), Rosa Parks? sure, she had a pretty visible and courageous role in the equal rights movement. The others just make me unbelievably irritated. famous, important, or influential for sure, but icons of history? whaaaaa? not only are they not, but they saw fit to not add real historical figures such as George Washington Carver, Harriett Tubman, Frederick Douglas, Malcom X, Booker T Washington, heck, you could even make an arguement for Jessie Jackson and Colin Powell (especially considering the choices they made).
if i were black, i'd probably be even more upset (as was the woman i work with who is). but even simply from an american history standpoint this is utterly appaling.
so, the results so far, which are about as dissapointing as the original choices:
name / votes / % of vote
Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. / 1070 / 39%
Oprah Winfrey / 508 / 18%
Rosa Parks / 439 / 16%
Tiger Woods / 289 / 10%
Condoleezza Rice / 250 / 9%
Maya Angelou / 121 / 4%
feh.
so, wednesday, on my first day into work for the week i see it...
Which icon of black history do you most admire?
and here are the people they thought were worthy of note as ICONS in HISTORY who just happen to be black (mostly) - i'm also going to assume they meant american history.
Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Condoleezza Rice
Rosa Parks
Tiger Woods
Oprah Winfrey
Maya Angelou
MLK Jr? absolutely (and my vote obvioulsy), Rosa Parks? sure, she had a pretty visible and courageous role in the equal rights movement. The others just make me unbelievably irritated. famous, important, or influential for sure, but icons of history? whaaaaa? not only are they not, but they saw fit to not add real historical figures such as George Washington Carver, Harriett Tubman, Frederick Douglas, Malcom X, Booker T Washington, heck, you could even make an arguement for Jessie Jackson and Colin Powell (especially considering the choices they made).
if i were black, i'd probably be even more upset (as was the woman i work with who is). but even simply from an american history standpoint this is utterly appaling.
so, the results so far, which are about as dissapointing as the original choices:
name / votes / % of vote
Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. / 1070 / 39%
Oprah Winfrey / 508 / 18%
Rosa Parks / 439 / 16%
Tiger Woods / 289 / 10%
Condoleezza Rice / 250 / 9%
Maya Angelou / 121 / 4%
feh.