Discrimination

[rahmota]

Boozy: It depends a lot on the circumstances in many ways a white guy is discriminated against in America. Especially when going for a job that affirmative action is considered in. I know becaue I've not gotten a job or two in my life because of that.

Also if a white guy says somethign stupid like what Ius said recently there is an outcry to have his tongue stapled to the shuttle and launch him into orbit But if a black guy calls other black women hos or another black guy a nigga' (Notice with an a not an er) then its a cultural thing. (Either way it sounds incredibly stupid)


I'll just say tha like whats been said earlier a person should be considered for a job because they can do the job ot because of their grouping they fall into.

[Boozy]

I was genuinely asking for clarification on Primer's point, as opposed to making a point myself. The wording of the sentence seemed unusual, and I wasn't clear on what she was saying.
Just thought I should clarify that myself, because otherwise my "typo" response could sound sarcastic!

[rahmota]

Yes it could I will agree. My apologies but that was the way I took it. My apologies.

[Rubystars]

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I'm really glad that so many people seem to understand. Anyway, I have been feeling better little by little, but it's still emotionally really hard on me. I'm still working on the forgiveness and anger part.

I'm just going to continue being me there and work toward a better future in other ways and hope the job comes back up again soon.

[iradney]

In South Africa, the government has been applying Affirmative Action for the past 13 years. The result? The rich black (I refuse to say African. I'm African too dangnabbit!) minority has gotten richer, and the poor black majority has gotten poorer. They didn't think to first educate everyone so that they can apply for the positions that allow them to earn more money and improve their quality of life!
And of course, sometimes an unqualified person is hired in a management position and completly FUBARs everything. Which results in them having a mad scrabble to hire someone that IS qualified to fix the mess. *sigh*

[MadMike]

I think the same thing happened at my job, years ago. They hired a black woman into a non-entry level position, and they had her working on training programs. If she was qualified for the job, why did they have her working on training programs?

The only reason I even found this out was because she was having trouble with the programs, and when I looked at what she had done so far, it was obvious that she had no clue what she was doing. There were some really stupid coding errors in it, and she had no idea what to even look for in fixing the problems. She ended up qutting at some point.

I agree with the others who say that this is just another form of discrimination, and it's just as wrong to discriminate against someone who is white as it was to discriminate against someone who is black.

Unfortunately, it happens. Minorities are sometimes given preferential treatment, and if white people were given the same treatment. Can you imagine what would happen if someone tried to start a United Caucasian College Fund, or a White Entertainment Television network? People would be screaming bloody murder over it.