MultiCultClassics is often occupied with real work. As a result, a handful of events occur without the expected blog commentary. This limited series—Delayed WTF—seeks to make belated amends for the absence of malice.
After getting skewered in sensationalistic style by the Daily Mail, Wunderman Thompson Creative Director Jo Wallace sought to defend herself on Channel 4 News—yet may have talked her way into more trouble. Surely, the PR department at her White advertising agency can’t be happy to hear her protestations.
One of the White men who succeeded in the discrimination lawsuit against JWT had remarked, “I remember feeling like I just had a target on my back. I remember thinking, if I was a Black 24-year-old woman I’d be fine. If I had been gay, even better.”
Wallace shot back, “I feel sorry for him that he felt he had a target on his back and I can massively relate to that right now, given all the coverage about myself. … In terms of being better off had he been a Black young woman and a gay one at that, we just return to the statistics, because they show that if he had in fact been that, he probably would have never even been given an opportunity to begin his career.” And she went on to declare, “…in reality, the current rate of change means that women will receive equal pay in at least 100 years…”
Okay, but the statistics and current rate of change means whiny White women like Wallace will experience equality waaaaay before Black and Brown people.
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