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     Yvettep AALBC .com Platinum Poster Username: Yvettep Post Number: 3552 Registered: 01-2005 Rating: N/A |
The new head of Xerox Corp. is a native New Yorker who grew up in a lower East Side housing project. Xerox will be the first Fortune 500 company headed by a black woman when Ursula Burns, 50, takes the reigns this summer. Burns replaces Xerox CEO Anne Mulcahy, 56, who told shareholders Thursday she would be retiring in July and had picked her lieutenant as her successor. Burns climbed the corporate ladder at Xerox, beginning as a summer engineering intern in 1980 and rising to president of the printing giant in 2002. As president, Burns oversaw a large chunk of the company's operations including overseas research and development, engineering, manufacturing and marketing. She helped to build Xerox into the world's largest maker of high-speed color printers. Last year, Burns ranked 10th on Fortune magazine's top 50 Most Powerful Women in America. She's the second-highest placed African-American woman behind only Oprah Winfrey, who was ranked No. 8.... Read more: "Ursula Burns to head Xerox, will be first black woman to be CEO of Fortune 500 company" - http://www.nydailynews.com/money/2009/05/23/2009-05-23_1st_black_woman_xerox_ceo .html#ixzz0GeOKfqMn&A | ||
| Cynique "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Cynique Post Number: 13737 Registered: 01-2004 Rating: N/A |
Good for Ursula! See what having a good ol Scandinavian name can get you? She never would've gained this position had she been named ShieQ'uana.  Congrats to our Puerto Rican sista for the supreme court nomination. Now comes the fun part as Republicans get their chance to alienate Hispanics.  | ||
| Yvettep AALBC .com Platinum Poster Username: Yvettep Post Number: 3553 Registered: 01-2005 Rating: N/A |
LOL @ Cynique! But look at this woman, named Marijuana Pepsi (really!): http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/40874017.html | ||
| Yvettep AALBC .com Platinum Poster Username: Yvettep Post Number: 3554 Registered: 01-2005 Rating: N/A |
Oh yes--and hurray for Judge Sotomayor! | ||
| Cynique "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Cynique Post Number: 13740 Registered: 01-2004 Rating: N/A |
"Marijuana Pepsi" might have a shot at becoming Pepsi Cola's CEO. This is a crazy name as opposed to a ghetto one. Wonder if her middle name is "Munchies" "Emma" is the most popular name for American girl babies. A black name didn't have a chance at making the top ten list, because they are all original and no two are spelled alike. | ||
| Chrishayden "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Chrishayden Post Number: 7960 Registered: 03-2004 Rating: N/A |
Good for Ursula! See what having a good ol Scandinavian name can get you? She never would've gained this position had she been named ShieQ'uana. (Go back to posting your fevered hallucinations, you jackanape(tress?) May a flock of syphillitic buzzatrds nest on your roof!) | ||
| Cynique "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Cynique Post Number: 13744 Registered: 01-2004 Rating: N/A |
There chrishayden goes again. Talking to himself. He's apparently conflicted about this subject. | ||
| Ferociouskitty Veteran Poster Username: Ferociouskitty Post Number: 749 Registered: 02-2008 Rating: N/A |
Cynique, Pepsi is her middle name--Marijuana Pepsi Jackson. ;-) | ||
| Cynique "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Cynique Post Number: 13749 Registered: 01-2004 Rating: N/A |
 'Guess I have to wonder if her nickname is "Munchies" or "Toke". Actually, she could just Anglo-size her name and go by "Mary Jane". | ||
| Ferociouskitty Veteran Poster Username: Ferociouskitty Post Number: 752 Registered: 02-2008 Rating: N/A |
LOL @ Cynique. We will also have our first black female rabbi this weekend: http://tinyurl.com/mcuwwc |
