I don't have to do anything to discredit you. You do a fine job of it yourself. You have no idea how and why the audience was selected unless you were there when it was selected. Your hypothesis is very demeaning to the minorities that are in the audience.
Each one of us deals with the consequences of upper managements decisions and actions on a daily basis. We are part of what happens and generally have a basis of fact to support our position of whether or not things are good or bad. You have absolutely no basis of fact or credible evidence to support your theory that the people in the audience were plants. Without credible evidence, when you just throw crap at the wall to see what sticks, you lower your credibility. You didn't even need to bring the race issue up to make your point so the fact that you did speaks volumes about you. Just because your wife and kids are not Caucasian doesn't mean you don't have a bias.
Again, very demeaning to those people in the audience. I'm sure they'd be more than a little upset that you just see them as "the token Black" or "the token Asian", especially when you really don't have any evidence to support that.
And as usual you resort to ad hominem arguements. However, to quote you "You're making commentary on something you know nothing about" as in you know nothing about how the audience was selected. I know you think you do but you don't. The reason I can be sure of this is that you wouldn't be criticizing the makeup of the audience if you personally selected it. As you are criticizing it, you must not have been part of the selection process and therefore you don't know how it was selected.
Here's some reality for you, so stop your "spinning" for a second and pay attention. Fact: FedEx has lost numerous discrimination suits, and ever since the $51m Black/Latino management settlement in CA, FedEx has been doing everything possible to show how "diverse" they are. This is where the "Diversity Appeal" publication came from, and it only exists to show everyone that FedEx has learned it's lesson. Ever read it? It's probably the most PC rag you've ever seen, but it will probably help FedEx avoid more lawsuits in the future. Fred probably views this investment as worthwhile.
"Demeaning to those people in the audience"? Huh? What's really demeaning is that FedEx trots-out a rainbow "audience" that supposedly shows a true cross-section of FedEx Express. Funny how a random sample of "questions" came from such a perfectly-balanced group of employees, or doesn't your critical mind pick-up on this obvious anomaly? This is why it has to be fake. There's no way statistically that you would achieve that particular blending of employees. In my 25+ years with this company I've seen exactly one person of East Indian heritage, yet there are several in the Town Hall. There aren't many Asians who work at FedEx either, so the large number in the audience is very likely a misrepresentation. In other words,
FedEx is demeaning minorities by over-representing them in this production, and under-representing Caucasians.
Anyone who has ever taken a statistics course would quickly determine that this is not a random sample of the FedEx employee population, especially if you consider that they are supposedly there to have
their questions answered (but not verbatim).Of all employees who were picked, this group just happens to be ethnically balanced.Hmm. You don't need to be Mr. Spock to see the
illogic of this "audience" Fake, Phony, Fraud, and set-up all the way. Canned like SPAM, and served-up with a couple of cheesy "hosts" who have a definite agenda to spread with their media shovel.
My "bias" is against corporate suck-ups, not minorities. An audience full of "tokens" is not only an insult to minorities, but a gross underestimation of the average employee's intelligence.
