How is it still a White Christmas?
Why did Diwali get picked as the launch day for Christmas ads? The average 90%-white ethnic composition of the agency teams behind this year’s work is your answer, according to Engine Creative's Alpesh Patel.
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Why did Diwali get picked as the launch day for Christmas ads? The average 90%-white ethnic composition of the agency teams behind this year’s work is your answer, according to Engine Creative's Alpesh Patel.
Now excuse me, I'm gonna go feel dirty for white knighting over a billionaire.
Yes. he got in his team on merit. definitely. but you and he discuss the south african decision to be proactive, to try to engineer more black representation in the cricket team, to have, in essence, a quota... quota system, yes. ..of black players at the top of the game. it's been tried elsewhere, too, in the national football league in america, for example, they do interventions to try to encourage... black coaches. ..more black coaches at the very top of the game. why aren't those interventions, in your view, useful? cos it seems to me, if you believe in symbolism, as you do with taking the...
And they are talking about having a quota system, i do not agree with it. i do not think you should try to change things by laws and regulations. start from the ground level. but, michael, this is really important, what you wrote about makhaya ntini, because he was, i think, the first very successful black cricketer in post—apartheid south africa. yes. he got in his team on merit. definitely. but you and he discuss the south african decision to be proactive, to try to engineer more black representation in the cricket team, to have, in essence, a quota... quota system, yes. ..of black players...
Equal human beings, it doesn't matter what happens in the sport. and that chapter, again, with makhaya ntini, with south africa, and they are talking about having a quota system, i do not agree with it. i do not think you should try to change things by laws and regulations. start from the ground level. but, michael, this is really important, what you wrote about makhaya ntini, because he was, i think, the first very successful black cricketer in post—apartheid south africa. yes. he got in his team on merit. definitely. but you and he discuss the south african decision to be proactive, to try...