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Are you the one responsible for all those church burnings?
Try applying to Savannah State or Alabama State. Not University of Alabama, Alabama State University. You'll get a scholarship.
I think they were just trying to let you down easy.Quote:
Originally Posted by SpoDaddy
Besides, is there only one college in the country?
Like i said, Alabama State or Savannah State. Full ride, meals, housing, and you might get an allowance.
The place I work at is basically run by Latin Americans and Blacks, and in the 8 months I've been there I haven't gotten so much as a raise, promotion or even recognition. Their discrimination is quite overt, as was described to me by a friendly co-worker who started the same job the same day as I had.
Within those 8 months he had been promoted to a "lead" which is just a baby step before manager. He quit because "the higher up you get, the more you're exposed to management's petty politics and racist discrimination." He didn't want anything to do with it, so before he left, he told me about my stagnant position in the place being the result of my operating manager's discrimination towards me.
"They're messing with your schedule, trying to make you quit, man." He told me. Apparently when they want someone out, they try hard not to fire them. They try and get them to quit so they don't have to pay leftover absentee and vacation days.
That's not unusual. Every job i've had did that to people. It's funny, because Papa John's didn't even have benefits. I think they have to pay unemployment whatever.Quote:
Originally Posted by TrialSword
In japan, i get it alot, pretty much everyday, in some extremely noticable form or another. I guess not too different from brisco, nobody will sit next to me on the train. But i have the advantage of understanding them when they don`t think i can speak japanese, so they are daring each other to sit next to the white guy.
In essence, i am considered really cool and amazing and all that, because the idea of the white guy is so popular, but it is nearly impossible to be part of a group in japan unless they have been to america for an extended period of time. My best japanese friends have all spent like a year in america, we speak japanese, and they don`t treat me like a foreigner.
I get looked at pretty much everywhere outside of roppongi (I guess the translation is 6 trees? Its a well known foreigner place). Literally, if i am not looking, around 75% will be staring at me, although that lowers the more international the location gets. At first when I got here, i thoguht that was really cool, fucking rock star and shit. Then it started to piss me off, and by now it just doesn`t bother me any more. Its just a product of the lifestyle the people were brought up in, and they have little reason to challenge the merits. Now I expect my friends to eventually drop all of thier sterotypes, but I can`t change a population.
I have been seriously asked if i brought a gun with me, if i have shot someone, how many guns I own, how does cocaine feel, do I actually have a black friend, in america, do we think of black people like they think of other asian races.
And the thing is, its not just limited to japanese, europeans tend to have a rather negative view of americans, at least in my experiance here. If I say things they don`t agree with, its "because i am an american." If we have a different taste in music, its because I`m an american. If i say anything inconsiderate, ect. In fact, there is so much bashing of america from europeans, it is ridiculous sometimes.
Of course, this is not everyone. and i really do go out of my way to take everyone on a clean slate, but these are some general observations i have picked up. Not all of the racism is bad, in fact, alot of the times i get ALOT of advantages for being white, and the japanese love americans who are not military. But its not until i really learned japanese alot better, and began understanding everything people were sayings, that i figured out there is alot of negative racism too.
Case and point, america fucking rocks. Racism is like 4000 millions times worse over here than in the states.
I've lived in California pretty much all my life, and people seem pretty tolerant here. Don't really notice any personal racism, though double-standard shit gets under my skin.
It's not just race, though. People adopt all sorts of definitions and separate themselves from others. Gay/black/woman/rich/jock/otaku/American/Christian/alumni/underwater basket weaver/whatever. Self esteem transforms into pride for something larger, yet completely meaningless.
Even since school years, I've never considered myself a part of some larger collective. Maybe it started because I'm a straight white male, and taking pride in any of those definitions is often looked at as bigotry. But I don't think so. Now, it's an idealistic sort of thing--I hate seeing people segregate themselves by defining themselves to fit into some group. It's irritating, especially when those that separate themselves go and complain about separation and prejudice.
Same thing happened to me at Stop & Shop. They'd rather promote someone who barely speaks English than me, who was there for a long time and plenty of good feedback from customers and other managers.Quote:
Originally Posted by TrialSword
Meh, it was a dead end job anyway and I knew I wasn't going to be there forever.
Though obviously it's not a personal attack on me perse, I am angered at Bryant Gumbel's recent comments on his HBO show "Real Sports".
Here's the transcript:
“Finally, tonight, the Winter Games. Count me among those who don’t like them and won’t watch them.... Because they’re so trying, maybe over the next three weeks we should all try too. Like, try not to be incredulous when someone attempts to link these games to those of the ancient Greeks who never heard of skating or skiing. So try not to laugh when someone says these are the world’s greatest athletes, despite a paucity of blacks that makes the Winter Games look like a GOP convention. Try not to point out that something’s not really a sport if a pseudo-athlete waits in what’s called a kiss-and-cry area, while some panel of subjective judges decides who won.... So if only to hasten the arrival of the day they’re done, when we can move on to March Madness—for God’s sake, let the games begin.”
Does this fall under the "racism against whites" category? Well, he can not like the fact that there are few blacks in the Winter Olympics but his attacks on it are uncalled for. You can bet if there was a black couple dominating figure skating he'd keep his mouth shut. Sure, I don't like figure-skating and it isn't a sport in the same way a "men chasing a ball around" type of sport is. But there clearly is skill, accuracy, and athleticism there, and for him to basically discount it because it's "too white" is wrong. Well, at least the lack of media attention offering a couterpoint is wrong.
We know there'd be flack if white folks were to discount a mostly black sport, which certainly wouldn't be done by a person of Gumbel's stature, and if it was they'd either be instantly fired of if they're lucky be allowed to grovel for apology. Black rights groups would quickly organize and boycott, and the media blitz would be never ending. Gumbel's comments on the other hand have drawn little to no criticism / media attention, and white interest groups haven't raised hell because THEY ARE NOT ALLOWED TO EXIST.
And another thing Gumbel - there aren't alot of black people ANYWHERE IT'S COLD you moron. It's a genetic thing, their bodies just don't handle cold as well as people originating from natively colder climates.
My point is there's a blatant double-standard, many white sports commentators have been instantly fired for saying controversial things.