Black Bikers Experience

Thought I would share this bit of information with you.

  

The CEO of Red Lobster and Olive Garden did you know he is a black man.

  

Each week tens of thousands of diners eat at an Olive Garden or Red Lobster restaurant. Few of these diners know that the CEO heading these large restaurant chains is a black man.

  

Clarence Otis Jr. Is the CEO of Darden Restaurants Inc., the largest casual dining operator in the nation. The firm operates nearly 1,400 company-owned restaurants coast to coast serving 300 million meals annually. Darden employs 150,000 workers and has annual revenues of $6 billion.

  

Born in Vicksburg, Mississippi, Otis moved to Los Angeles when he was 6 years old. His father was a high school dropout who worked as a janitor. The family lived in Watts at the time of the 1965 riots. In the post-Watts period, Otis recalls being stopped and questioned by police several times a year because of the color of his skin.

  

A high school guidance counselor recommended him for a scholarship at Williams College, The highly selective liberal arts institution in Massachusetts. Otis graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Williams and went on to earn a law degree at Stanford. Otis landed on Wall Street as a merger and acquisitions attorney for J.P. Morgan Securities. He joined Darden Restaurants in 1995 as corporate treasurer. He became CEO in 2004.

  

How many of us-or anyone else-knew this?!
(But we heard all about Michael Vick, didn’t we?)
Things have got to change.
Start now, by FORWARDING THIS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW!

  

Typical white aspect of America isn’t it? Blacks will not make national headlines unless it is negative information. They have their particular exceptions of course for example, in sports Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods, in music those of extraordinary talent, passed away Michael Jackson.

  

It is a shame though how many blacks close their eyes to the facts of how many whites of corporate America don’t care anything about them. Just because they smile each day in their faces, give flattering compliments, and so many blacks just eat it up thinking they are in with the big dogs! So foolishly ignorant those blacks are! Walking blind with their eyes WIDE OPEN!

  

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