I always shed a tear whenever I see a Frankie S. Arabia post. May he rest in peace.
Yeah it’s a tough world for the negros. Diversity programmes are sort of helping gett minorities in at the ground level, but forget about ever making it to the upper echelons of finance.
It does amaze me that people won’t hire the best candidate just because of race/gender. Hearing things like this make me realize that when people say the tea party or anti Obama nuts are racist, it just might be true.
I also feel sorry for black people who have white sounding names and get an interview with some of these guys not realizing there is no hope of a call back.
See this ticks me off every time.
I grew up in a small town with a population of about 800 people with a decently sized farm. I was shocked at how much more racism I encountered when I first moved to a larger city after college. The idea that small town people are all small minded and backwards has been in my experience without basis. If anything, I’d say the opposite were true. I’ve had a couple people, one of which was an Egyptian who moved near my home town just after 9/11, echo similar sentiments.
Just want to stress this fact: If FIL had never called me, but had said to himself, “Better not call this girl. There’s a chance she’s one of them darkies”, then the outcome would have been the same and I’ve have never known better. I could have gone about my life and lived happily ever after.
But he didn’t–he actually came out and said it. And the fact that he said it bothers me.
Not sure if that makes it any better or any worse.
Truth!
^^i’d say that make it worse, closet racists are like closet religous people, at least they aren’t trying to shove their beliefs in your face.
Admittedly racism still exists in the world but the office is one place where it should not matter. At the end of the day, making a profit, developing ideas or whatever the goal of a particular business is, should be the main focus and the best person who can achieve that should get the job, regardless of race. It’s rather short-sighted of your father-in-law, for all he knew she could have been perfect for the job and made his life easier.
The only thing I will say I have a problem with is thick accents, sometimes it’s just not cohesive to getting work done when you have to concetrate just to understand somebody. You figure those things out at interview stage anyway not just from their resume.
But (and I’m in no way advocating this), if I hate black people with a passion (whether it’s for a good reason or not), then does that not matter? Wouldn’t that impede profits and developing ideas? (Since every time I’m in the room with DeMarcus it makes me so mad I can’t see straight, and I have to drink three shots just to calm down.)
You could say the same with Mohammed/Mr. Goldstein, or Igor/Rahul Roy.
I see your point, but wouldn’t working with a competent black person change the Klan leaders’ perspective? Maybe they’re so blindly racist because they’ve never interacted with intelligent people from a minority race before and their only experience is lil Wayne and toilet attendants.
Maybe I haven’t met enough racists but in my experience it’s ignorance/lack of exposure more than pure irrational hatred.
Where they applying to be a professional basketball player?
The color green is stronger than any skin color.
Given sexism, racism, fatism, ugliism, and shortism are rampant in the workplace, should not I be able to hire those groups that have seen discrimination and increase my profits because I will be able to get at least similar quality work for less cost? Ultimately, I should be able to run all the bigots out of business unless the discrimination is eradicated…
Wait, are you saying we should only hire women because we can pay them less?
That’s actually a pretty good idea…
If you ONLY hired women and payed them less than their counterparts at other firms you wouldn’t be practicing gender wage inequity, you would just be the cheap firm that people think pays less
Unfortunately, that hasn’t been my experience in small Canadian and American towns.
But then again, my preference is that they declare it outloud so I know where we stand, rather than a closet racist I’m unaware of.
I think the farming maybe poorer small towns are like this. The marthas vineyard type places, you will be stared at.
Preach. Welcome back little cubby. AF missed your candid troof!
Have you been? Maybe you look like a martian?? Or maybe you are pretty??
Maybe your Father-in-Law wanted you to say “No, I think you should give her a chance to see what she’s like” to prove you can stand up for something moral. Well guess what Greenie, you failed the test! How’s that? Now he’s on his “ControllerForum” posting like “Could you believe my Son-in-Law, I assumed he was a racist so I tested him by asking if I should call in this women to interview and he didn’t defend her… what a shame”
Except the entire story came about because somebody from that small Texas town refused to hire somebody because she was ostensibly black.
Racist people are everywhere, cities, towns, it doesn’t matter. In cities you have a lot of immigrants or first generation people who bring their old country’s more homogenously racist culture with them. In small towns, in my experience in PA, you get more of the klan crowd that were born in the US and are racist more because they were taught that way, but have limited opportunity to express it. You will definitely find more racists in cities as you encounter orders of magnitude more people.