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Originally Posted by DaemonSeid
So..you accept and understand...but what are you doing about it?
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All I can do it live it- in my hiring decisions and in who I do business with.
I learned very early in life that results matter. And I hire and promote people based on results, period. I am very comfortable stating that and standing by it.
In a broader sense, it is harder because there is so much vitriol out there to contend with when one goes public.
When I meet someone, they have the same "chance" with me as everyone else in the context of the developing relationship- be it personal or professional.
But as much as I despise the "Bob Jones" mentality, I also despise the "Reverend Wright" mentality because I see them as one in the same.
Yet it is hard to be up front about that since you never know if someone will be the same or let personal biases influence their relative views. And maybe to an extent I have my own biases I don't even recognize.
I have worked with people who told me to my face they hate blacks, Mexicans, Asians etc. But I have also worked with minorities who I have seen use their racial status and legal favor of their status to force themselves into being treated specially beyond what they deserved.
And this is where people get defensive and scared. And whether you get defensive or scared depends on what your views are, the views of the other person and where the power is in that relationship (ie who works for who etc.)
On a national scale- the answer is that the media needs to stop promoting racial tension to achieve TV ratings. There is a fine line between exposing hidden injustice and talking up non-issues, but I think that line has been crossed.
How you do that is hard to say. The media does this to make money- and in a capitalist society, any society really, the goal is to make a good living for one's self.
So all you can do is your part to keep your little piece of the earth as it should be.
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