ErikHeavan you are all over the place, and at the same time, nowhere. No one has asserted that racism does not exist. Why don't you try to read my post again to understand the point instead of hysterically crying that someone is attempting to take your "racism blanket" away from you.ErikHeaven wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pL-4_JI ... ure=colike
I remember in the 80's (Yeah i am an old dude!) on the applications they had must not wear an afro or dreadlocks. There was an uproar regarding this and you do not see that on applications anymore. I disagree with you Contrarian we have to get out of that go along to get along attitude. If one is qualified in every sense of the word and can do the job why should we Black Americans be forced to change our looks to please white aesthetics?
If we follow that logic one day some white people will require us to bleach our skin in order to get hired.
Here is my story i worked at a Denny's many years ago and my boss was a female Italian woman. She was telling me over and over again how she could not find an assistant manager as no one was applying. I told a dark skinned black man in my building to apply as i knew him for awhile and i knew he had an extensive history as manager's in restaurants in the south, and he had a bachelors in culinary arts.
She said to me tell him to come down. He did and went she met him she had this look of shock on her face. She interviewed him and 30 minutes later she walked up to the front and threw his resume in the garbage. 1 month later she hired a white woman way older than him that did not have a college degree.
So there is still racism in America for Black Americans and Mr Cain's mentality of try harder or just fit in and be quiet is not working for Black America or White America.
It has to stop and this is what some parts of these current protests are all about.
Also, if I tell a white man that he must cut off his mullet or long hair before I hire him, he will likely do so if he wants the job because that is not the image I want to project in my organization. The same goes for the black man in dreads who will, instead of comporting himself in a manner conducive to getting a job, will cry like you about having to make adjustments in himself before being hired. Any man, black or otherwise, who is unemployed and whines about grooming standards is unemployable and does not deserve a job in my book. You are the type of devil that will tell black boys that they should not HAVE to speak correct English, or dress appropriately, or conduct themselves in a mainstream manner. Because of black devils like you, black boys fail and have not chance. You are worse than the racist in my view because you poison black people to undermine their own progress with cries of "why should we have to?" Go straight to hell and burn with that sh.t!
Finally, your stupid example of the manager is of someone as foolish as you. If that incident occurred the way you explained, the black applicant should have filed a compliant with the EEOC or state-level employment discrimination commission which would have brought a lawsuit on his behalf. But noooooo, he took it up the rear end and cried himself to sleep because he had no basic knowledge of what laws exist to prohibit such conduct on the part of employers.
I am getting to the point where I believe the greater portion of black people are next to worthless. They literally look for reasons not to succeed just so they can suck their thumbs and remain under the "racism blanket" and remain failures. I am only interesting in critical-thinking black people. I am only interested in people willing to go the extra mile and those who are not excuse-oriented. ErikHeaven, you fail; but don't cause black young people to fail because of your defeatism!