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Blacks have a unique history, as well as a unique present-day social status, in that they are still, and have always been, victims of institutional and pervasive racism. That is the difference between blacks and ‘other’ immigrant groups. The difference, to put it in plainer terms by use of a hypothetical, is this: Yes, the 19th Century Irish immigrant had to live through tough times and faced discrimination, like the black sharecropper not even one generation removed from slavery. However, the difference is that in the year 2000, that Irish immigrant’s Irish-American great-grandson will not be pulled over and detained ‘driving while Irish,’ nor will he be followed around a department store, nor will he be denied a home loan, nor will he be steered clear of residing in certain neighborhoods, nor will he face job discrimination or a glass ceiling within corporate America. That is why the black experience is different. The trials and tribulations brought on by our slavery, oppression and ongoing discrimination and marginalization makes our experience, and our reaction to those experiences, unique.
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Name : Renee, Gender : F, Age : 27, City : Troy, State : MI, Country : United States, Social class : Upper middle class,Yes, a child can be darker than both of his or her parents. It happens every day. I myself am of a darker complexion than both my mother and my father. It looks like your husband may have to submit to that blood test after all. Also, complexion and hair texture have nothing to do with intelligence levels as I’m sure you must know. You emphasized the difference between the young man, his mother and your husband in the mental competency department. The boy and his mother may have just been afforded less educational opportunities than your husband. That intellectual difference alone, however, does not rule out paternity. The boy may have just been raised in a totally different environment, hence his lack of intellectual capacity in your eyes.
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Name : Renee, Gender : F, Age : 27, City : Troy, State : MI, Country : United States, Social class : Upper middle class,You say you used to administer a ‘rather sophisticated management training program in which those who couldn’t make it were fired.’ Well excuse me, but could you be any more vague?! I am an African American female who is currently in management at a medium sized corporation. I was fortunate, in that I was mentored, by a white female who felt that after decades of bastions of white males rapidly rising through the ranks, based on their cache in a very exclusive ‘old boys network,’ it was indeed time for a change. Prior to affirmative action I had seen white males with less experience, who were far less qualified leap frog over me and other minority and female employees, and into positions that we helped train them to get!! So don’t dare patronize and/or condescend to me about unqualified minority applicants (a conservative right-wing myth, and political red herring). I know the truth for I live it everyday. The bottom line is this; minorities and women in the workplace have upset the status quo of the white male. White males now have to compete with the rest of the world as their OWN affirmative action, free rides, and cozy little buddy systems are rapidly coming to a close, courtesy of the federal government, and equal opportunity clauses. They don’t like it one bit, hence all the pathetic whining about ‘the integrity of the program,’ being lost. As if a historically discriminatory society which shut women and minorities (like my college educated parents who have advanced degrees for instance…)out of the white collar workforce was so ethical, and full of integrity! I would be ashamed to hold the views that you do. As a 65 year old man, it’s incomprehensible to me, that one can live so long, yet be so ignorant of our society, and our American history. I am convinced you know full well, that you, and the white males you know in whatever corporate entity you reside, are not exactly tripping all over themselves to recruit minorities and women, yet you have the gall to want to do away with a little program that seeks to afford managerial training to those who have not had those kinds of choices handed to them on a silver platter as you have! How contemptible!
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Name : Renee, Gender : F, Age : 27, City : Troy, State : MI, Country : United States, Social class : Upper middle class,
