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re: Watchmakers Are Too White

Posted on 1/18/21 at 3:00 pm to
Posted by udtiger
Over your left shoulder
Member since Nov 2006
112725 posts
Posted on 1/18/21 at 3:00 pm to
Posted by L.A.
The Mojave Desert
Member since Aug 2003
65437 posts
Posted on 1/18/21 at 3:01 pm to
There will be no peace until ***shuffles deck*** there are more POC watchmakers
Posted by BigJim
Baton Rouge
Member since Jan 2010
14980 posts
Posted on 1/18/21 at 3:01 pm to
Posted by auggie
Opelika, Alabama
Member since Aug 2013
30966 posts
Posted on 1/18/21 at 3:02 pm to
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Every watch thread needs watch pictures.

That's like rule #500.
Posted by Abraham H Parnassis
Member since Jul 2020
2644 posts
Posted on 1/18/21 at 3:03 pm to


Here's a watch company with owners from Ghana.

Personally I think they're missing on a marketing angle - "Watch ya Ghana do?"
Posted by HubbaBubba
North of DFW, TX
Member since Oct 2010
50963 posts
Posted on 1/18/21 at 3:06 pm to
Honestly, at this point, let go ahead and let Chy-Na have it. This country is a fricked up mess.
Posted by SouthEndzoneTiger
Louisiana
Member since Mar 2008
11444 posts
Posted on 1/18/21 at 3:07 pm to
quote:

blame the Swiss


quote:

Too many holes in that theory.


Nicely done sir!
Posted by TerryDawg03
The Deep South
Member since Dec 2012
17680 posts
Posted on 1/18/21 at 3:16 pm to
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I blame the Swiss


But they have the best chocolate!
Posted by AURaptor
South
Member since Aug 2018
11958 posts
Posted on 1/18/21 at 3:18 pm to


All that good men need to to is just stop listening to idiots and paying attention to them.
Posted by imjustafatkid
Alabama
Member since Dec 2011
62798 posts
Posted on 1/18/21 at 3:20 pm to
That's ridiculous. If black folks want to be watchmakers, no one is stopping them.
Posted by DeepBlueSea
Member since Jan 2018
815 posts
Posted on 1/18/21 at 3:25 pm to
I say these companies and associations should partner up to offer urban watchmaking apprenticeships in our inner cities. Clearly it’s a win-win proposition.
Posted by CoachDon
Louisville
Member since Sep 2014
12409 posts
Posted on 1/18/21 at 3:27 pm to
Again, as always, I defer to simple statistics and math.

Of the 11%, how many have the inherent or have acquired the love of being a watchmaker for life.

Then, how many would go through the training to be a master at the craft and make a living at it.

Then, supposing they went all the way through to be a master watchmaker, how did it impact the percentage from the prior imbalance of them not being represented? Maybe .00000000001%

People are not critical thinkers anymore.



Posted by PaperTiger
Ruston, LA
Member since Feb 2015
26336 posts
Posted on 1/18/21 at 3:27 pm to
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Everything in our society has become racial.


Its this. Its just wears you down.
Posted by Chrome
Chromeville
Member since Nov 2007
12716 posts
Posted on 1/18/21 at 3:29 pm to
Makes you wonder if they are going to accuse the Mafia of being too white.
Posted by Lima Whiskey
Member since Apr 2013
22594 posts
Posted on 1/18/21 at 3:31 pm to
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All that good men need to to is just stop listening to idiots and paying attention to them.


I appreciate your suggestion, and I understand your point.

Ignore the people who are beneath you.

That’s a very southern approach too.

But while we were doing that, ignoring them, these people took over the country. And that is a real problem, it does effect us.
Posted by Gaston
Dirty Coast
Member since Aug 2008
41694 posts
Posted on 1/18/21 at 3:32 pm to
No, the people above you used them to take over.
Posted by Lima Whiskey
Member since Apr 2013
22594 posts
Posted on 1/18/21 at 3:32 pm to
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Its just wears you down.


It’s exhausting.
Posted by AURaptor
South
Member since Aug 2018
11958 posts
Posted on 1/18/21 at 3:37 pm to
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Ignore the people who are beneath you.


Stop giving them the satisfaction of sounding legitimate. Not enough BLACK watchmakers ?

How many young black men, hell, young ANYONE for that matter, pine away at being a master watchmaker, but are denied because...

Why would anyone be denied this? Seriously, if there's a market for such a thing, then go fill it. JFC, this is madness to even grant these whiners an audience !


Just like a spoiled child, the more you hover over them at the hint of discontent, the more they'll whine to get their way.
Posted by AURaptor
South
Member since Aug 2018
11958 posts
Posted on 1/18/21 at 3:41 pm to
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If black folks want to be watchmakers, no one is stopping them.



We're supposed to believe it's the jewelry cartel, huh? Is that the unspoken subtext to all this ??

Honestly.
Posted by Chazreinhold
Utah
Member since Oct 2020
7243 posts
Posted on 1/18/21 at 3:51 pm to
FFS, why do these people even GAF about shite like this?
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