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Originally Posted by Inner Dirt
A lot of it is in the figment of a person's imagination. Back a couple decades ago before becoming self employed I was a low level supervisor at a large aerospace company. I often heard people from south of the border complain that company wide racism made their rate of advancement through the pay grades slower than the "gringos." Every single employee that made such a statement had an extremely over inflated assessment of their skill level and value to the company. Minorities were well represented in management and higher level hourly positions in that company, the people claiming racism were 100% wrong.
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Originally Posted by chadk66
i think your exactly right. Compared to thirty or forty years ago it’s virtually non existent. Let along 50-100 years ago. Maybe those minorities complaining should get a taste of what real racism was like. It’s actually an embarrassment to those that actually suffered racism.
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I live in a county that is basically 1/3 black 2/3 white, it seems we all get along fine here. Let us just say we have a young black girl who gets her first job as a grocery clerk in a small town market. For the record I live in a small town. This young black girl running the register unfortunately reads too many of the media stories about racism directed at people of color. She is very friendly and chats all the customers up as she scans their items. An elderly white lady comes through her line and refuses to acknowledge her presence other than paying her bill while looking down. Because of what the media has fed her she instantly assumes the old white lady is a racist who flies a Confederate flag in her lawn, when the real reason for the negative interaction is the old white lady is not comfortable around strangers and a germophobe.
