Racial pride, BLACK CEOS Fortune 500 companies

[union]

Kenneth C. Frazier
President, Chief Executive Officer and Director of Merck & Co., Inc.
REVENUE: 45.987 billion

Merck & Co., Inc. (NYSE: MRK), also known as Merck Sharp & Dohme or MSD outside the United States and Canada, is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world.

Kenneth I. Chenault
Chairman and CEO of American Express
REVENUE: 25.612 billion

American Express Company (NYSE: AXP), sometimes known as AmEx, is a diversified global financial services company headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1850, it is one of the 30 components of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The company is best known for its credit card, charge card, and traveler's cheque businesses. Amex cards account for approximately 24% of the total dollar volume of credit card transactions in the US, the highest of any card issuer

Ursula M. Burns
Chairman and CEO of Xerox Corporation
REVENUE: 21.633 billion

Xerox Corporation (NYSE: XRX) is a Fortune 500 global document management company (founded in 1906) that manufactures and sells a range of color and black-and-white printers, multifunction systems, photo copiers, digital production printing presses, and related consulting services and supplies.

Richard Dean Parson
Chairman of Citigroup Inc. (also former CEO of Time Warner)
REVENUE: 86.601 billion

Citigroup Inc. is an American multinational financial services company based in New York City. Citigroup was formed from one of the world's largest mergers in history by combining the banking giant Citicorp and financial conglomerate Travelers Group on April 7, 1998.[2]

Don Thompson
President and Chief Operating Officer of McDonald's
REVENUE: 24.075 billion

As President and Chief Operating Officer, Don Thompson directs global strategy and operations for the 32,000 McDonald’s restaurants in 117 countries to create value for McDonald’s and its shareholders.

[union]

Nearly all of them are law school graduates.

[greenday]

Change is here

[Executive]

Here in the UK we have One black African CEO in the FTSE 100.

[Monk-of-Mogadishu]

Change is here

No, when Western blacks get money they marry white chicks and move to the whitest neighborhood money can buy; within 3 generations all the blackness is breeded out. Blacks in America specifically are going nowhere.

[DR-YALAXOOW]

Africas richest man Alhaji Aliko Dangote Net worth 13.8 billion US dollars

[greenday]

Change is here

No, when Western blacks get money they marry white chicks and move to the whitest neighborhood money can buy; within 3 generations all the blackness is breeded out. Blacks in America specifically are going nowhere.

Waa runtaa but the more that become rich the less they feel they have to act white. You know when something new to you dont know how to deal with it.

[Kukri]

There is man missing that this topic will bring warmth into his heart.

Our resident African Americunt A.K.A Voltage...lol

[HalfBked]

Very little of this has much merit. It all appears to be ceremonial and very much a rarity. Corporate America is still riddled with the usual back-handed policies that curtail any tangible progress for non-whites. The glass ceiling is more than an urban legend, its a reality. Surprised most of them are law school graduates, MBA would have made more sense.

[Voltage]

Kukri go phuck yourself bitter badow. Nigga I is a negro.

Half, I would have thought the same too about an MBA instead of JD but as for what you said about glass ceiling, true but an individual can't really spend too much time thinking about that. These guys are successful individuals as well as Black aren't they?

[Kukri]

You wish, you lil faraax!

I is a niggro kuye...fock you know about niggro other than the movie Roots?

[HalfBked]

Kukri go phuck yourself bitter badow. Nigga I is a negro.

Half, I would have thought the same too about an MBA instead of JD but as for what you said about glass ceiling, true but an individual can't really spend too much time thinking about that. These guys are successful individuals as well as Black aren't they?

White people have been doing this shit for decades i.e. select a few black individuals from a highly polarized pool, season them and essentially white-wash them, then brandish them as heads of these companies. It plays to their policies and makes them feel better about their morality. But, is any of it real? Did these individuals get here because of their own personal hard-work? That's what they want everyone to believe, but there's a whole lot more involved than recruiting a candidate based on experience and education. This is America afterall, this country was built to sell you the idea that everything and anything is possible, so long as you work hard, what it fails to tell you is all the other behind-the-scene politics and the amount of ass-kissing, compromises and selling-out one must do to reach at the top of the hierarchy.

[Kukri]

White people have been doing this shit for decades i.e. select a few black individuals from a highly polarized pool, season them and essentially white-wash them, then brandish them as heads of these companies. It plays to their policies and makes them feel better about their morality. But, is any of it real? Did these individuals get here because of their own personal hard-work? That's what they want everyone to believe, but there's a whole lot more involved than recruiting a candidate based on experience and education. This is America afterall, this country was built to sell you the idea that everything and anything is possible, so long as you work hard, what it fails to tell you is all the other behind-the-scene politics and the amount of ass-kissing, compromises and selling-out one must do to reach at the top of the hierarchy.

[barakaboy10]

Nearly all of them are law school graduates.

so what is your point? we should all go to law school or should become like them?

if your point is hard work gets you somewhere, i totally agree with you. education is more lethal than a nuclear bomb and believing that itself is as strong as stone. as Somalis, we don't have both. we don't have the education nor do we encourage and support each other for it.

the achievement of a few individuals does a lot to boost my morale but doesn't alleviate the higher percentage of illiteracy rate in our Somali society. i am extremely frustrated with my people in the west who enjoy vast opportunities but do little to take advantage of it. Somali high school graduates in some parts of the united states is dropping, much less about college. people like to blame the kids for their failure but i blame the parents who do little to stir up or instill the importance of education in their children's minds early on.

to tell you the truth guys, i am very pessimistic about the future of Somali kids in the west.

[XaliimoFarax]

if your point is hard work gets you somewhere, i totally agree with you. education is more lethal than a nuclear bomb and believing that itself is as strong as stone. as Somalis, we don't have both. we don't have the education nor do we encourage and support each other for it.

This is so true and yet sad reality. Overachievers are looked down upon instead of encouragement.