Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall 
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		| Look at that black guy with the mentor."  I told you that you don't NEED a mentor. | 
	
 Things're improving for minorities.  The last three people I know who last made partner at big firms, none of them were white males.  One was a gay minority, one was a straight minority, and one was a white woman.  Each had a mentor that was a white male, and not through some official method.  I think highly of each of them too.