Comment by defrost

> No one has claimed a blanket anything.

Scroll up:

> He was told explicitly by his boss that they weren't promoting white men.

@sanity https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46607980 3 hours ago

While he may have been told that (or more likely "remembered" things that way), it simply wasn't something that was commonplace in the 1980s.

Where exactly was he working that had a "no white men at the top" policy in the 1980s?

Death Row Records was founded in 1991, Bad Boy Records was founded 1993(?) and in that industry sub domain it should have been intuitively obvious to the meanest intellect that no white men would reach the top well before they (if any) joined as lowly office clerks.