Jarvis Buckman is a Managing Partner of Leste Determinant Capital. He is also a Columbia Business School grad and education and financial literacy advocate
@TheOtherJimbo@FreewayPhiloso1@danawhite@MikeTyson Agree, society would probably be better if more people received what they were asking for. Would help them better calibrate to being decent with people. Respecting others doesn’t cost anything.
"It’s easy for us to place it all on Donald Trump’s shoulders... This is us. And if we’re going to get past this we can’t blame it on him. He's a manifestation of the ugliness that’s in us." @esglaude says white people must reckon with the continued presence of racism in the U.S.
@ShaneSugino@SRuhle It’s not so much about appeal, and it’s more about promotion. Diverse professionals are mostly just looking for the best place to POSSIBLY get a fair shake. It’s not a super high bar. And if you are actually promoting diverse talent into leadership as part of your system, then...
THERE IS NOT A LIMITED POOL OF BLACK TALENT TO RECRUIT FROM.
Just like there is no correlation btw playing college lacrosse & having a knack for bond trading, yet trading floors have been packed with lax dudes for years.
IT’S CALLED A CLOSED NETWORK.
Time to crack it open... 👇
Sen. Lindsey Graham (3/10/16): "I want you to use my words against me. If there’s a Republican president in 2016 and a vacancy occurs in the last year of the first term, you can say Lindsey Graham said let’s let the next president, whoever it might be, make that nomination."
Check out this week's @VoiceOfVeterans#NextGenWarrior episode with @USMC Veteran and CEO/Founder of @At_Ease_Rentals Anthony Gantt. Mr. Gantt shares some advice for starting your own business. Listen to his inspiring story below⤵️
@YahooFinance@readDanwrite@drewbrees All that talk about unity, sounds like Drew needs to be kneeling to show that “we’re in this together”. Why does it have to be his way or the highway? Shows he’s not a leader of men. He looks at his black brothers who go to battle with him with judgment about their pain. Sad...
@JoeBiden Will you ensure the remedies include meaningful monetary compensation to the victims (at least $100k for any violation) payable by the state and the municipality that employs the officers in question, so that it forces the issue of reform at the local level?
@JoeBiden What is your specific plan to address the problem of policing for black people? Will you set comprehensive federal standards for how policing is done? Will you make it automatic that police lose their jobs without pay or pension if they’re body cams go off during a stop?
@JoeBiden Along these lines, will you ensure there are resources to provide justice for complaints against violations of the new federal standard within 365 calendar days so that people’s lives that have been disrupted by police violence don’t have to wait too long for justice?
Black journalists have repeatedly asked for race-inclusive data on coronavirus but people keep wondering why we want to inject race into a global pandemic.
Here's a list of reasons: