tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11279250.post1567244661954701295..comments2024-02-13T01:35:29.765-06:00Comments on MultiCultClassics: 13131: Diverted Diversity Advocates.HighJivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11372784671087002387noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11279250.post-24253833327641328832016-03-22T13:08:08.307-05:002016-03-22T13:08:08.307-05:00I'm exhausted.
I'm about to step out of ...I'm exhausted. <br /><br />I'm about to step out of this industry for good because it's so mentally draining to have to hear racial shit EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. Not like that "microagressions" bullshit. I mean cold, flat out racism from agency producers and creatives and account managers. <br /><br />The whole "speak up" thing works great if you have a steady paycheck and the support of HR and your team. I have none of that. Because I'm always the only damn person in the room. Know what happens when you speak up in front of a group of entirely white people in an agency? YOU LOSE YOUR JOB BECAUSE THEY FREEZE YOU OUT COLD. <br /><br />Plus I've seen amazing, talented black men and women who have spoken up, and recently (I'm not talking in the Civil Rights era, I mean in the last two to three years), get shown the door. Their phones stop ringing if they were freelance, their jobs dry up to nothing and they have to go to another industry. <br /><br />Where the hell does that leave me? Other than on my way out of advertising? <br /><br />The worst feeling of all is that I'm not alone. There's like ONE of me at every single ad agency in the world of Madison Ave and none of us can do a damn thing about it. <br /><br />just_so_damn_sadnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11279250.post-68261767216780902462016-03-21T19:04:47.586-05:002016-03-21T19:04:47.586-05:00https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcyZhe2RnQk Yes th...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcyZhe2RnQk Yes the industry does have a diversity problem. Ive never seen an industry so rife with diversity issues. Notice how no white female has the guts to speak up for minorities. The female they hired actually compliments him in a memo sent out to JWT employees. Meanwhile you have black diversity officers at every holding company ready to defend racists and company interests at any costs. Donald trump is a saint compared to the people that run diversity in advertising. Im also glad that JWT supports adcolor. http://www.jwt.com/blog/tag/diversity/ . Yes the industry has always beenl racist, thats never changing. pablogustavonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11279250.post-6409758062310288932016-03-21T01:11:22.328-05:002016-03-21T01:11:22.328-05:00White women can afford to speak up in the press.
...White women can afford to speak up in the press. <br /><br />People of color can't. Not based on the black men and women who've been outright blacklisted from the Madison Ave. agency world for good, anyway. <br /><br />People talk. We all know who they are, we've heard their stories, and we know what happens when you're ethnic and raise your voice in advertising. <br /><br />There's no one there to support you, no one there to speak on your behalf, and sure as hell no backup from the agency or holding company side of things. No 3% Conference, no group with any clout, and fewer and fewer faces of any color each year that passes so it's not like you're going to get a mass of people to rise up and support you. <br /><br />Raise one peep about racism if you're not a white woman or a white man, and you can kiss your career goodbye. truthofthematternoreply@blogger.com