I am so angry right now and it isn't even my issue.
My Pal Sassy called me on the way home from work. She went on a job interview last week. She didn't think her interview went that great and she didn't get the job.
But that department has sent a call out for extra help because they are understaffed and Sassy is going to be putting in some hours with them, and hopefully getting her foot through the door.
What I'm upset about is that the supervisor there felt secure enough to tell Sassy that she didn't get the job because they decided to go with someone more 'ethnically diverse'.
In other words my pal Sassy is too white for the position.
Can you imagine telling someone that their skin color isn't right for the job? That's what she was told.
And because she's white it's alright!!
How the hell did this happen?
Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks and all the other folks who fought for civil rights were looking for equality. When did it become about reversing the racism?
Isn't racism, whether the person is black, red, white or yellow, isn't it bad? Isn't it wrong? How can we as a society sit back and think that pushing white folks out of jobs be ok? And how can telling the person up front that you are just too vanilla to do the job, how can that be allowed?
About 15 years ago in my highschool we almost had a race war.
In the family planning class one of the white football jocks got partnered up with a black woman.
The football guy had no problem with it, but the black girl said that she wasn't going to be partnered up with no 'white assed, crackerized, honkey son of a bitch'.
So the jock (and in this he was wrong) retaliated by stating that he didn't want to be with no 'N-word' either.
Well of course the girl of color ran to the office and screamed about his offensive words and he was suspended.
And this is where the war almost broke out.
The entire football team stormed the office and demanded that the girl be suspended as well. Both of them acted in a racist manner and it would only be fair if both were suspended.
The president of the school council as well of the captain of the football team screamed the loudest that it was only right that both be suspended since they both acted in the same spirit. He threatened that if both were not suspeneded it would become very difficult for any of the other blacks in the school to make it down the hallways unscathed.
He was black.
The principal caved in to his wisdom and suspended both of them.
I went home and told my parents what happened and they were horrified.
They felt that because the girl was black it was alright because she came from a people that had been persecuted for generations. So because she was descended from slaves it's alright to spout hate and racism and bigotry then?
My parents told me I was being small minded.
No, small minded is accepting racism or bigotry in any form. I don't care where you come from, I don't care what your history is. There is no justification for racism, none what so ever!!
6:45 a.m. - January 10, 2006
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