Let’s talk honestly about the racism on the right.
As a consultant in many large IT shops I see conservative co-workers and bosses who look at a Black or Hispanic and immediately assume that person is an Al Sharpton or some comedy show dufus. They don’t allow the possibility that the person is a Herman Cain or Clarence Thomas ... or just an ordinary guy like anyone else.
I go to political dinners where people gradually find seats around tables. A conservative Black, clearly a Marine and whom I know to be an Alan Keyes type, asks a white conservative at a table if the chair next to him is taken. The seated conservative tilts the chair forward to lean against the table indicating the chair is taken. As the Black walks towards another table, the white conservative says “I’ll be damned if I’m going to sit next to one of them.”
At a think tank fundraiser dinner, a high profile conservative Black in the think tank is presumed by some big money conservative donors to be part of the waitstaff.
I could give numerous examples. Many conservatives don’t want to face this honestly. Of course, this is not limited to conservatives. Institutionalized racism is on the left where the elite assume that Blacks and Hispanics are too stupid to survive in a competitive society without help from the elite (using conservative taxes of course).
“co-workers and bosses who look at a Black or Hispanic and immediately assume that person is an Al Sharpton or some comedy show dufus. “
This part is easy...as a White, I ALWAYS assume that a black or Hispanic got to where they are by QUOTAS, not by merit. Don’t blame me...blame the DEMOCRATS for causing that. I will NEVER let a black doctor touch me, with the only exceptions being the ones that are world renown...of which we have a few here in Houston. The rest, I’m sorry to say, I must assume got there based on ‘diversity’ requirements...even though I realize that’s probably not the case, I just have NO WAY to be sure.
As to having a black sit next to me...I won’t speak for that, other to say that I’ve now had the race card pulled twice on me at work - in both cases they got close enough to me to have me trust them, made fun of their own kind, and then had me written up when I got comfortable enough to joke around with them in the same way. So, I can NEVER trust a minority the way I can trust one of my own type - I ALWAYS have to watch what I say. You can blame me, call me a racist, or whatever, but those are MY experiences and I ONLY respond to them.