Survey reveals racism depths

South Florida Sun-Sentinel ^ | 7/20/02 | Brittany Wallman, Staff Writer

[browardchad]

FORT LAUDERDALE

[warchild9]

I prefer the open racism presented to us white boys when I worked at a major pharmaceutical company. A hustling black lawyer gave us an honest speech explaining why we were going to be passed up for mentoring, promotions, and training: the company wanted Federal money, which meant quotas. I resigned, as did a few others. Most of the rest shifted restlessly like cattle and swallowed it. (PS: I moved to another company and was promoted within three months.)

[anniegetyourgun]

There will always be some level of racism in our nation. However, liberals seem to find ways to exacerbate the problem. Ever notice how race relations are most strained in the "blue zones?"

Truth is, liberals are some of the most racist people I know.

[blackdog]

If anyone is interested in a rewarding, enriching, meaningful career that contributes to our GDP, and measures themselves on achievment, what the hell are they doing working for gubmint anyway? Argument is flawed from that point alone. I say leave government, work in the private sector. Once it is just "them", they will eat each other alive cause whitey aint there to villify any more.

[IronJack]

the complaints are unfair to minorities.

Huh? Would complaints about the Klan be unfair to Night Riders? Bias is bias, regardless whom it favors. And don't give me a lot of Orwellian crap about unequal being equal and slavery setting you free.

[Savage Beast]

At one point in my life, I had a large number of employees working 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. I did not discriminate on any basis other than ability and willingness to do the job--not because of any law--but solely because of my own sense of fairness and love of people.

What I wanted was to be able to go home or out of town and sleep at night, knowing that the work was being done as well as if I were there.

I hired men and women; black, white, Asian people--whatever; homosexuals; fat people; at least one ex-convict; at least two people with AIDS; mentally ill people; alcoholics; at least one person with inoperable cancer. The only thing that mattered was whether I could trust them to do the job reliably and to standards of excellence.

I was very successful.

At one point I did become concerned that there might be discrimination against white men. The supervisor was a white woman, her assistant a black woman. I met with them and expressed this concern. They convinced me that there was no cause for concern.

There's some adage sometimes posted in law offices about how in hell there will be many laws, strictly enforced, but in heaven or heaven on earth there will be few laws, seldom enforced.

One thing I really didn't like about living in "Liberal" enclaves--Marin County comes to mind--is that laws are numerous and enforcement selective. The untimate and unintended result is injustice.

This is a major problem with "Liberals" and the "Liberal" mindset. Those who are truly concerned about justice become so focused on good intentions that they loose sight of final outcome; the result is pavement for the Road to Hell. Those who are angry and intent on some kind of revenge or retribution use the good intentions of the others to misguide them. The result again is the Road to Hell.

"Liberals"--whether they be scoundrels or fools, and they are certain to be one or the other--wind up dragging us all down that well known, well paved Road to Hell--some intentionally--some despite their good intentions.

In the final analysis--the work of "Liberals" is the work of scoundrels and fools and their results injustice.

[thucydides]

The comment that liberals are racist is justified. Just at the time that blacks were making great strides, they hopped on the bandwagan and promptly began converting the movement from a civil rights movement (people should be treated neutrally) to discriminatory movement (distribution of entitlements and preferences under guise of remediation). This move was the natural result of moving the matter into the political arena. Merely assuring that everyone is treated equally by government offers little opportunity for patronage and political support. Converting the movement into one for the brokerage of special identity group benefits at the expense of the general community had enormous political benefits. While some liberals may have been sincere in their belief that they were serving civil rights, in fact they were setting up a system of racism and institutionalized corruption, one example of which has been Jesse Jackson's lucrative racial shakedown business. The cost has been to create and reinforce negative stereotypes about blacks, to inculcate in them a helpless victim mentality, and to deprive them of their humanity. In a real sense, the new system is a successor to the horrors of Jim Crow.

[Conservative Chicagoan]

Wasn't this long part of the civil rights movement? King was a communist who favored affirmative action and many of his followers were even more radical.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Tomorrow you will have been born yesterday.

[Mark17]

Truth is, liberals are some of the most racist people I know.

Roger that. Hi Annie.

[AdvisorB]

No, I think big government leftists (the definition of
communists being Democrats in a hurry) are very much
intolerant. They practice their intolerance in the
name of "diversity" and "multi-culturalism"

[Jonx6]

ping

[Don Myers]

"Most of the rest shifted restlessly like cattle and swallowed it. "

The sheep continued chewing the grass.

[Don Myers]

"Truth is, liberals are some of the most racist people I know."

I have noticed many "conservatives" bending over backwards into a "U" shape to prove how they are not racist, never had a racist bone in their body, and by the way, "would any of you like to have my daughter?"

[BeAllYouCanBe]

The cost has been to create and reinforce negative stereotypes about blacks, to inculcate in them a helpless victim mentality,

Excellent observation!!!

I work in California with almost all new immigrant Asian peoples.(East Indians, Chinese, and Vietnamese -- now in government terms they are all "Asian" and all qualify for some sort of minority status even though they are in the majority.(I think these immigrant groups are hired because they work for less than Americans.)) I am shocked how quickly these various peoples new to the US catch on to the game and start "pulling the race card" and the victim mentality.

So part of the legacy of the black liberation is "perceived possible racism" that can be prosecuted and the government has enough lawyers to make it difficult to make rational business decisions about hiring, firing and promotions. This is not in the government but the private sector. With so many race cards being pulled out of the deck all the time it is difficult to get a good game going.

Where will this racial preference stupidity end?

[gitmo]

One of the comments in the survey:

Blacks do not associate with whites. ... It is very uncomfortable to walk down a hall and not one black in a group to look at you or talk to you."

I now think this is a natural tendency in human behavior. What led me to this conclusion was a documentary I stumbled onto in the wee hours of the morning years ago. It was a special on the making of The Planet of the Apes movies. (I must have been desperate for something to watch on the TV.) One of the people from the studio was describing the enormous effort to do the makeup for the apes. Once an actor or actress was in costume, they couldn't take it off for the rest of the (long) day. They ate in costume and all breaks were in costume.

She said that within 2 days a strange thing occurred. At breaktime or at mealtime you would see all the orangutans gathered together, all the chimps congregated, and all the gorillas socializing with gorillas.

It wasn't that they were sharing the same parts of the script. The script usually called for mixtures of apes. Also, people were not associating with their friends, if the friend was costumed as another species.

I've pondered this for years as I've watched human behavior. I have concluded this is some innate part of the human brain, to associate with those who are more like you.

[sinclair]

"Once it is just "them", they will eat each other alive cause whitey aint there to villify any more."

Dude! You are not thinking today. "Them" exert a great deal of power and influence over your life. Once it is just "them" you are royally screwed. Rethink that sentiment for your own best interests, please.