sealybobo
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- Jun 5, 2008
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You are wrong thinking we no longer have this problem. I work for a company that has zero minorities. Zero. They should have a least 1 black guy working here just like the GOP has one black guy in their party. We need a token! If every company that doesn't have a black working for them would just hire one each we'd probably solve our black poverty problem. Unfortunately the Big 3 employeed a lot lot blacks but the GOP with NAFTA sent all those jobs to China and Mexico.
What??? You mean you think your company should just hire someone with black skin because black skinned people can't get a job there otherwise? What's the matter with them? Does their skin make them stupid or something?
How would you feel being a "token?" Let's say the national MENSA society decided to adopt you as a "token" even though you're nowhere near MENSA level intelligence? You think you'd be happy there? Would you feel you belonged? Would your fellow Mensans respect you as an equal? Now, maybe it's more "fair" for them to have a token idiot, but you cannot force fairness. It doesn't work.
My company should go out of their way to hire a black because just like the rest of us, they are probably PLENTY qualified to work here. Unfortunately the hiring managers have a bad opinion of black people. Lots of whites do. It is why we came up with AA in the first place. Now you may think the time has passed and racism doesn't exist anymore but you would be wrong.
I'm sure like Ben Carson the black my company hires would not think of themselves as the token black. In time they might even think they are better than the average black just like Ben does. They may even forget that it was a program like AA that got them their first break.
Ben Carson experienced periods of poverty in his youth, and his family intermittently relied on government assistance (primarily food stamps).
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