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Well, 'Rent a White guy' was definitely a thing in Asian country (especially China) at least a few years back. And a little more back again (5-10 years) it was even common for companies business meeting to show a white guy at a meeting as a token of prosperity.

I'm not meaning I agree in either way though.

That's pretty funny.

The author should setup a job board and see if people can get jobs through it. Although that might just be too painfully ironic. (I'm not from the US: is it legal to setup a job board and restrict it to protected classes only?)

I thought I'd link to their hire-us page. It's great and contains some wonderful alternatives to all the chest-beating that goes on in the tech media these days. http://rentaminority.com/hire-us/

That link to http://learn-to-search.com/ kinda took the wind out of it for me.

> In 2012, only 7% of men organizing tech conferences had the search skills to book male and female speakers in equal number.

.. that slide would be funny if it had a link back to http://rentaminority.com/ !

"I look to a day when people will not be judged by the content of their character, but by the color of their skin."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

I thought that was Oscar Wilde?

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