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2020-02-05 Britain

'My African name stopped me getting job opportunities'

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Posted by Besoeker 2020-02-05 06:55|| || Front Page|| [12 views ] Top

#1 Yes. This is why people have been "Americanizing" their names for a long time. To fit in, and all that...

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-02-05 07:24|| 2020-02-05 07:24|| Front Page Top

#2 Amoebabola? Who knew ?

Posted by Besoeker 2020-02-05 07:27|| 2020-02-05 07:27|| Front Page Top

#3 Lawyer and diversity campaigner

And African-named black? Sounds like a perpetual HR project. Pass.

Posted by Frank G 2020-02-05 07:33|| 2020-02-05 07:33|| Front Page Top

#4 You're a Brit. Had your family entered through Ellis Island to America in the 19th Century, that would have been 'fixed'.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-02-05 07:45|| 2020-02-05 07:45|| Front Page Top

#5 Lawyer and diversity campaigner

The proper translation is 'professional shakedown artist'. Congratulations, England - you now have the female version of Jesse Jackson & Al Sharpton.

Posted by Raj 2020-02-05 08:04|| 2020-02-05 08:04|| Front Page Top

#6 Funke Abimbola

Just imagine what some high-schoolers could do with that name.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-02-05 08:31|| 2020-02-05 08:31|| Front Page Top

#7 Then there are folks whose name was given to them by stupid parent(s) and they seem to make do just fine.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2020-02-05 08:56|| 2020-02-05 08:56|| Front Page Top

#8 About a third of FTSE 100 companies have no ethnic minority representation on their boards, a report has revealed.

So the disease is not terminal yet?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-02-05 09:37|| 2020-02-05 09:37|| Front Page Top

#9 The British Royal family are going to have to stop falling for these con artists if they want to survive mad king charlie

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-02-05 11:37|| 2020-02-05 11:37|| Front Page Top

#10 Should have gone with Funke Coldmedena.

Posted by swksvolFF 2020-02-05 11:49|| 2020-02-05 11:49|| Front Page Top

#11 "I have experienced bias and situations where, being a ~~black woman~~ old white man, I was judged more harshly over other colleagues. You are more likely to be noticed and are far more likely to have negative judgements made about you if you are part of an ~~ethnic~~ elder minority."

So what.

Posted by Skidmark 2020-02-05 12:46|| 2020-02-05 12:46|| Front Page Top

#12 Good chance it wasn't her name so much as the Lawyer and Diversity campaigner part that got her filed in the bin. I know that would be my reaction. Hire her and you will get sued and get a ton of bad publicity, it's just a matter of time.

Posted by rjschwarz 2020-02-05 14:13|| 2020-02-05 14:13|| Front Page Top

#13 'My African name stopped me getting job opportunities'

Wonder how somebody with an Afrikaans name would fare?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-02-05 16:18|| 2020-02-05 16:18|| Front Page Top

#14 Look for a Conservative in a University, MSM company or law firm and get back to us.

Posted by magpie 2020-02-05 16:27|| 2020-02-05 16:27|| Front Page Top

#15 swksvolFF wins comment of the day. Heh!

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2020-02-05 17:20|| 2020-02-05 17:20|| Front Page Top

#16 ^ Agreed!

Posted by Raj 2020-02-05 20:25|| 2020-02-05 20:25|| Front Page Top

#17 Snark O' The Day confirmed!

Posted by Frank G 2020-02-05 20:34|| 2020-02-05 20:34|| Front Page Top

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