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You are wrong on all counts here flacaltenn and if you think the example I posted was just anecdotal then consider that 31 percent of the white population was polled by UVA/IPSOS about 3 years ago to have a similar point of view. Studies have been done with human participants and the evidence shows that my example is not anecdotal. Drop the white fragility because no one has stated that all whites do that and in your disingenuous quest to lie to yourself about it not being racism but political, you cut out part of what I said to create a way for you to deny the reality of continuing white racism:“I can say for sure that happens because I did it. Before retirement I was an Engineer. The last 20 years of my career I was a Manager and Director and I hired hundreds of people. I reviewed well over a thousand resumes for all kinds of positions. Everything from Secretaries to Engineering Managers. Both Salary and Hourly. I always culled out the resumes with Black Ethnic names. Never short listed anybody with a Black Ethnic name. Never hired them.”
“Since the Fortune 50 company I worked for had a stupid "affirmative action" hiring policies I never mentioned it to anybody and I always got away with it. A couple of times I was instructed to improve my departmental "diversity" demographics but I always ignored it and never got into any trouble. My stereotype is that anybody with a stupid ghetto Black ethnic name is probably worthless. I could have been wrong a couple of times but I was also probably right 99% of the time.
Glad I did it. I would do it again.”
Thought we were talking about property restrictions. How many topics ya want in one thread? That's the WORST kind of anecdotal evidence to be "PROVING" that the USMB you quoted IS REPRESENTATIVE of their race... And then ACCUSE ALL WHITES of the same thing.. That's called racial stereotyping and its a tactic used by ALL RACISTS and haters... I am not Flash.. I gained some notoriety in Silicon Valley by posting a couple OP eds in the Bay Area papers challenging Jesse Jackson to send me a TRAINLOAD of qualified black engineers, researchers and techs and I would take a YEAR OFF to see that they ALL got placed.. Wouldn't have taken me a year, but my CEO came into my office and chuckled and told me he would "cover my salary" and kick in $20K to help if Jackson took my offer...
Blacks have good reason not to trust the law. Because many whites work to circumvent laws that apply to racial equality. This happens daily in America NOW, in 2020.
That would be illegal and challenged.. EXCEPT for the stuff that IS NOT REALLY racial, but POLITICALLY motivated... Like demanding NO registration roll cleaning at all..
"Blacks have good reason not to trust the law. Because many whites work to circumvent laws that apply to racial equality."
“As a white person and someone who has never had to face racism, you really cannot know what racism feels like or is or where it starts and finishes. You can guess and speculate, but until a day comes when you can turn black and then walk in that black man's shoes for at least a day, you are not qualified to make demands or tell us what racism is, what is true and what is false or what a person of color goes through in a life time. Or how it would be better for them to just suck it up.
That is for a person of color to say. Someone with first hand experience, and not just a bystander with a biased attitude.”
USMB Nonwhite member
"Because most whites have not been trained to think with complexity about racism, and because it benefits white dominance not to do so, we have a very limited understanding of it (Kumashiro, 2009; LaDuke, 2009). We are the least likely to see, comprehend, or be invested in validating people of color’s assertions of racism and being honest about their consequences (King, 1991). At the same time, because of white social, economic, and political power within a white dominant culture, whites are the group in the position to legitimize people of color’s assertions of racism.Being in this position engenders a form of racial arrogance, and in this racial arrogance, whites have little compunction about debating the knowledge of people who have thought deeply about race through research, study, peer-reviewed scholarship, deep and on-going critical self-reflection, interracial relationships, and lived experience (Chinnery, 2008). This expertise is often trivialized and countered with simplistic platitudes, such as “people just need to see each other as individuals” or “see each other as humans” or “take personal responsibility.”
White lack of racial humility often leads to declarations of disagreement when in fact the problem is that we do not understand. Whites generally feel free to dismiss informed perspectives rather than have the humility to acknowledge that they are unfamiliar, reflect on them further, seek more information, or sustain a dialogue (DiAngelo & Sensoy, 2009)."
Dr. Robin DiAngelo
"Because most whites have not been trained to think with complexity about racism, and because it benefits white dominance not to do so, we have a very limited understanding of it (Kumashiro, 2009; LaDuke, 2009). We are the least likely to see, comprehend, or be invested in validating people of color’s assertions of racism and being honest about their consequences (King, 1991). At the same time, because of white social, economic, and political power within a white dominant culture, whites are the group in the position to legitimize people of color’s assertions of racism.Being in this position engenders a form of racial arrogance, and in this racial arrogance, whites have little compunction about debating the knowledge of people who have thought deeply about race through research, study, peer-reviewed scholarship, deep and on-going critical self-reflection, interracial relationships, and lived experience (Chinnery, 2008). This expertise is often trivialized and countered with simplistic platitudes, such as “people just need to see each other as individuals” or “see each other as humans” or “take personal responsibility.”
White lack of racial humility often leads to declarations of disagreement when in fact the problem is that we do not understand. Whites generally feel free to dismiss informed perspectives rather than have the humility to acknowledge that they are unfamiliar, reflect on them further, seek more information, or sustain a dialogue (DiAngelo & Sensoy, 2009)."
Dr. Robin DiAngelo
You believe a bunch of right wing garbage as it applies to racial issues. Teflon History is fake history. And we can replicate the story told by flash several million times daily and it goes unchallenged . That's the cold hard truth and you don't want to believe it only because you don't have to live dealing with it.
“The second key maneuver, which flowed naturally from the first, was to redefine racism itself. Confronted with civil rights headlines depicting unflattering portrayals of KKK rallies and jackbooted sheriffs, white authority transformed those damning images of white supremacy into the sole definition of racism. This simple but wickedly brilliant conceptual and linguistic shift served multiple purposes. First and foremost, it was conscience soothing. The whittling down of racism to sheet-wearing goons allowed a cloud of racial innocence to cover many whites who, although 'resentful of black progress' and determined to ensure that racial inequality remained untouched, could see and project themselves as the 'kind of upstanding white citizen(s)' who were 'positively outraged at the tactics of the Ku Klux Klan". The focus on the Klan also helped to designate racism as an individual aberration rather than something systemic, institutional and pervasive.”
― Carol Anderson, White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide