usmbguest5318
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Its only embarrassing if they lose their job over it. I know the white guy that wouldnt hire me into 3rd level was embarrassed he got fired after it came out why he wouldnt hire me.They could be feeling you out. Nothing is more embarrassing for a white racist than being caught being racist around another white person that is not racist. I had a white girlfriend who routinely told me some of the things she would hear white people say about Black people before our relationship went public.While working today I had to interface with an older fellow who seemed normal enough. After a few minutes of conversation about cars and what not someone made a reference to "hanging out".
Ol' guy then mentions his skin is not the right color for him to be just hanging out. I must have said "huh" or looked dumb while holding my tongue because he repeated himself and said something like "know what I mean".
Being at work I chose not to engage him further.
First, what did the 60ish year old white guy mean? An odd reference to black folks standing around?
Second, why do white folks always do this around me? Are they trying to that prove the black rights protesters are correct and need to be protesting more?Nothing is more embarrassing for a white racist than being caught being racist around another white person that is not racist.
Um...If one is confident that one's racist views and behavior are just, why would one be embarrassed about it? Chagrin is something one feels when one does, says or thinks something that one knows is wrong, yet one did it anyway. It doesn't make sense to be embarrassed if one is certain one is in the right.
While third parties may construe that the person who lost a job for the noted reasons, the person who lost their job, if they are certain they were in the right, so to speak, should not feel any chagrin. If, on the other hand, the job-loser knows what they did was wrong, well, then yes, they likely feel embarrassed, though it's not often clear whether they feel so due to having lost their job or whether they feel so due to having acted on wrongheaded notions and thereby suffered the consequences of having done so. It's not uncommon for people of dubious character or acumen to be (or attest to being) embarrassed about the wrong things and/or for the wrong reasons.Its only embarrassing if they lose their job over it.