OK, on the one hand, any effort to bring diversity to Madison Avenue is commendable. Actually mandatory, if you’re with New York City’s Commission on Human Rights. GeneratioNext is taking place September 22, 2008. Sponsors include BBH, whose black sheep logo is accompanied by a statement claiming, “The company looks to hire the black sheep of the industry.” Not sure if the company looks to hire Black people too. Another sponsor is Merkley + Partners, the agency who signed a pact with the Commission yet managed to hire zero minorities in the first year of trying. Which sorta makes them the black sheep of diversity-committed agencies.
But from what I've seen Nancy Hill ain't doing crap. She's no better than the rest of the white diversity cheerleaders in power. They talk crap but they don't mean it.
ReplyDeleteDoes Nancy really think the problem is better options? Any option is a "better option" when the ad world shows utter condescension and disrespect to talent of color and agencies of color.
As for that steaming pile of idiotic, pseudo-navel-gazing dung known as MadMen, believe me Ms. Hill college kids aren't looking at MM and going "i was gonna apply to Burnett but screw that."
And contrary to your statement, Madmen for all it's stunning inaccuracies, got one thing right:
the ad world is filled with self-indulgent, arrogant, flippant white people who think they know everything about everything and never consider, not even for a second that someone darker/more ethnic than them might have some answers.
Can't wait changing times and demographics and cultural tides makes the whole lot of you irrelevant and unemployed.