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Judi Lynn

(160,631 posts) Mon Dec 14, 2015, 07:37 PM Dec 2015

People are calling Sam's Club CEO 'racist' after she gave an interview about diversity

Source: Business Insider

People are calling Sam's Club CEO 'racist' after she gave an interview about diversity
Business Insider
By Hayley Peterson
5 hours ago

Sam's Club CEO Rosalind Brewer is being accused of discriminating against white men following a CNN interview where she discussed the importance of workforce diversity.

Brewer was asked by the interviewer how she promotes diversity within her company. "It has to start with top leadership," Brewer said. "My executive team is very diverse and I make that a priority. I demand it within my team."

She said she mentors women inside and outside of her company, as well, and also encourages Sam's Club's partners to hire a more diverse workforce.

Now here's the comment that ignited the uproar:
"Just today we met with a supplier and the entire other side of the table was all Caucasian males. That was interesting," Brewer said. "I decided not to talk about it directly with [the supplier's] folks in the room because there were actually no female, like, levels down. So I’m going to place a call to him."

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/people-calling-sams-club-ceo-174039804.html

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People are calling Sam's Club CEO 'racist' after she gave an interview about diversity (Original Post) Judi Lynn Dec 2015 OP

Piss on the Walton family. theislander Dec 2015 #1

Is he a member of the Walton family? Kelvin Mace Dec 2015 #3

walmart/sams club is an equal opportunity gouger, squeezing everyone regardless of etc nt msongs Dec 2015 #2

", as well, and also..." alcibiades_mystery Dec 2015 #4

Thank you! I spend my entire day yelling at writers for this (as part of my job), and ScreamingMeemie Dec 2015 #14

What's wrong with the sentence? Elmer S. E. Dump Dec 2015 #18

The comments are ridiculous.. mountain grammy Dec 2015 #5

Wal-Mart Diversity thelordofhell Dec 2015 #6

At least they have a diverse corporate board at Sam's club OnlinePoker Dec 2015 #7

white male tears pothos Dec 2015 #8

It's not like she called them kkkrackas or anything. romanic Dec 2015 #9

just like he rest of the oligarchy. The racist comments of theirjust dog whistles to get the haters daybranch Dec 2015 #11

Odd edits on her wiki page recently... Deuce Dec 2015 #10

Not odd, just racist, as usual. Elmer S. E. Dump Dec 2015 #19

What They Are Really Angry About erpowers Dec 2015 #12

I think that every Sam's club supplier will have learned a lesson from this, Nye Bevan Dec 2015 #13

What I'm guessing she meant is that there was no one close to that position with whom she felt ScreamingMeemie Dec 2015 #16

So the CEO's example was about sexism which has underthematrix Dec 2015 #15

Well she did complain about the supplier sending all *Caucasian* males. Nye Bevan Dec 2015 #17

Diversity? Initech Dec 2015 #20

If this is what itr takes to get white male conservatives to boycott Sam's Club then so be it bluestateguy Dec 2015 #21

theislander

(35 posts)

1. Piss on the Walton family.

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Mon Dec 14, 2015, 07:38 PM

Dec 2015

Kelvin Mace

(17,469 posts)

3. Is he a member of the Walton family?

Reply to theislander (Reply #1)

Mon Dec 14, 2015, 07:44 PM

Dec 2015

She is getting grief for promoting diversity. Discriminating against white men, doncha know.

msongs

(67,453 posts)

2. walmart/sams club is an equal opportunity gouger, squeezing everyone regardless of etc nt

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Mon Dec 14, 2015, 07:39 PM

Dec 2015

alcibiades_mystery

(36,437 posts)

4. ", as well, and also..."

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Mon Dec 14, 2015, 07:45 PM

Dec 2015

The craft of writing, everybody.

Yeesh.

ScreamingMeemie

(68,918 posts)

14. Thank you! I spend my entire day yelling at writers for this (as part of my job), and

Reply to alcibiades_mystery (Reply #4)

Tue Dec 15, 2015, 11:44 AM

Dec 2015

I hate to see it creeping into "journalism."

Elmer S. E. Dump

(5,751 posts)

18. What's wrong with the sentence?

Reply to alcibiades_mystery (Reply #4)

Tue Dec 15, 2015, 04:31 PM

Dec 2015

She said she mentors women inside and outside of her company as well, and also encourages Sam's Club's partners to hire a more diverse workforce.

mountain grammy

(26,656 posts)

5. The comments are ridiculous..

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Mon Dec 14, 2015, 08:04 PM

Dec 2015

and show how utterly clueless some people are.

thelordofhell

(4,569 posts)

6. Wal-Mart Diversity

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Mon Dec 14, 2015, 08:07 PM

Dec 2015

Di longer you work there......Di verse it gets..........

OnlinePoker

(5,727 posts)

7. At least they have a diverse corporate board at Sam's club

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Mon Dec 14, 2015, 10:45 PM

Dec 2015

More inclusive than most boards, I would suspect.

http://corporate.samsclub.com/about-us/leadership

pothos

(154 posts)

8. white male tears

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Mon Dec 14, 2015, 11:21 PM

Dec 2015

i wish they were as valuable as diamonds

romanic

(2,841 posts)

9. It's not like she called them kkkrackas or anything.

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Tue Dec 15, 2015, 01:05 AM

Dec 2015

But I could careless about how "diverse" Sam's Club's board is; they like the Walton Family they work for don't give a shit about any other color but green.

daybranch

(1,309 posts)

11. just like he rest of the oligarchy. The racist comments of theirjust dog whistles to get the haters

Reply to romanic (Reply #9)

Tue Dec 15, 2015, 04:56 AM

Dec 2015

they have bred and indoctrinated to the polls.

Deuce

(959 posts)

10. Odd edits on her wiki page recently...

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Tue Dec 15, 2015, 03:23 AM

Dec 2015

Rosalind G. Brewer is the Head Basketball American of Sam's Club, a division of Wal-Mart Stores Inc.[1][2][3][4] She is the first woman and the first gorillia to fill the role of CEO at one of Wal-Mart Stores' divisions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalind_Brewer

Elmer S. E. Dump

(5,751 posts)

19. Not odd, just racist, as usual.

Reply to Deuce (Reply #10)

Tue Dec 15, 2015, 04:33 PM

Dec 2015

erpowers

(9,350 posts)

12. What They Are Really Angry About

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Tue Dec 15, 2015, 09:38 AM

Dec 2015

The people who are calling her a racist are actually just angry that she is a black CEO of a company. She did not say one racist thing in her comment. She did not say she did not want white men to be hired. She said she wanted to sit across a table and see a group that included minorities as well as white men.

Nye Bevan

(25,406 posts)

13. I think that every Sam's club supplier will have learned a lesson from this,

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Tue Dec 15, 2015, 11:38 AM

Dec 2015

and will no longer be sending any teams composed exclusively of Caucasian males to any meetings with Ms Brewer.

BTW can anyone explain what "there were actually no female, like, levels down" means, as I did not really understand it?

ScreamingMeemie

(68,918 posts)

16. What I'm guessing she meant is that there was no one close to that position with whom she felt

Reply to Nye Bevan (Reply #13)

Tue Dec 15, 2015, 12:31 PM

Dec 2015

she could speak about it.

underthematrix

(5,811 posts)

15. So the CEO's example was about sexism which has

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Tue Dec 15, 2015, 12:25 PM

Dec 2015

been repackaged as racism. I'm so glad I graduated from college.

Nye Bevan

(25,406 posts)

17. Well she did complain about the supplier sending all *Caucasian* males.

Reply to underthematrix (Reply #15)

Tue Dec 15, 2015, 12:34 PM

Dec 2015

I'm guessing that if it had been a Hispanic guy, a Muslim male, a Hasidic Jew and a guy in a wheelchair she would not have been so upset, even if they were still all male.

Initech

(100,105 posts)

20. Diversity?

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Tue Dec 15, 2015, 04:41 PM

Dec 2015

bluestateguy

(44,173 posts)

21. If this is what itr takes to get white male conservatives to boycott Sam's Club then so be it

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Wed Dec 23, 2015, 02:16 AM

Dec 2015

Why should I spend 10 seconds defending anything that company's management does?

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