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host · 04-02-2008, 07:00 AM

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Originally Posted by loquitur

....That means, if you want to reduce inequality, you can do it much more profitably and with more effectiveness by improving the skills and abilities of people at the bottom than by hobbling people at the top.

Bullshit !

It's a white man's "club"....it's been that way, it got a little more diverse, but not now. Only Jewish males have made any headway....and still, they are mostly white males, and not in the petroleum business, not as long as the bulk of world oil reserves are concentrated in the middle east.

Why don't you stop, loquitur.....the glaring reality of where the power in politics and business is concentrated, no matter how much "training", and "education" folks who aren't white male, pursue and achieve, they are not making it into those slots in any greater numbers.

1195 total fortune 100 companies boards of directors seats, white males hold 851 of those seats....

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http://209.85.207.104/search?q=cache...lnk&cd=1&gl=us
Women and Minorities
on FORTUNE 100 Boards
presented by
The Alliance for Board Diversity
May 17, 2005

SUMMARY OF RESEARCH FINDINGS/CONCLUSIONS
Board Demographics by Race and Gender
 As of September 30, 2004, board seats on the Fortune 100 companies totaled 1,195.
 Women occupied 202, or 16.90 percent, of those seats, and men occupied 993, or 83.10 percent,
of the seats.
 Women and minorities held 28.79 percent of the seats, while overall, white men held 71.21
percent of the seats.
 All minorities held 178 seats, or 14.90 percent, while white men and women held 1,017, or 85.10
percent, of the seats.
 African-Americans held 120, or 10.04 percent, of the seats, with African-American men holding
93 seats, or 7.78 percent, and African-American women holding 27, or 2.26 percent, of the seats.
 Hispanics held 46, or 3.85 percent, of the seats, with Hispanic men holding 40, or 3.35 percent,
of the seats and Hispanic women holding 6, or .50 percent, of the seats.
 Asian-Americans held 12, or 1.00 percent, of the seats, with Asian-American men holding 9, or
.75 percent, and Asian-American women holding only 3, or .25 percent, of the total seats.
TABLE 1: Board Demographics by Race and Gender
Total
Seats
% of Total
Seats
Fortune 100 Public Company Boards
1,195
100.00%
All Males
993
83.10%
All Females
202
16.90%
Total Minorities
178
14.88%
Total Females and All Minorities
344
28.79%
Total White Males and Females
1,017
85.10%

<h3>White Males
851
71.21%</h3>
White Females
166
13.89%

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http://www.thisnation.com/congress-facts.html

Men and Women in the 110th Congress

While the partisan composition of the Congress is fairly close to that of the electorate, there are larger disparities between the Congress and the general citizenry in term of sex and race. In the House, there are currently 365 men and 70 women. In the Senate, there are 16 women and 84 men.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...ce.2Fethnicity
....Race/ethnicity

See also: African Americans in the United States Congress

The Senate is 1% African American and the House is approximately 9.2% African American.[update needed].

Representation of Hispanics is somewhat complex. Hispanics represent over 14% of the U.S. population, while the Senate is 3% Hispanic and the House is approximately 5% Hispanic. Considering that Hispanics make up only 4% of American voters, Hispanic political incorporation has been relatively high compared with previous immigrant groups. The Congressional Hispanic Caucus [2] has 21 members. Joseph Marion Hernández, a Cuban American, was the first Hispanic in Congress. He was a Whig Party territorial representative for Florida in 1823. The first to represent a state was Romualdo Pacheco, who represented California in 1877. In 1929, Octaviano Ambrosio Larrazolo became the first Hispanic to be elected to the United States Senate. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a Cuban American first elected in 1989, was the first Hispanic woman in Congress......

....In addition, Jewish Americans (13% in the Senate) have a level of political incorporation greater than their voting population would suggest (2% of the population).

Compared with the primarily European American, African American, Latino, and Asian/Pacific American communities, American Indians, comprising 0.8% of the population, are under-represented, leaving Tom Cole as the only registered American Indian currently in the House.....