Posted on 07/01/2026 4:57:53 AM PDT by MtnClimber
In the late nineties, my boss sent me to an HR training conference. As I entered the elevator up to the conference room, a middle-aged black man and I acknowledged each other with a nod and a smile. We rode up alone and in silence.
One of the first hourlong presentations was on race relations, and the man I’d shared the elevator with was the speaker. To my openmouthed astonishment, he began by talking about me. He said he’d ridden the elevator that morning with a white man, and that I hadn’t spoken to him because he was black and I was white. He averred that my silence was a sign of continuing racism in America.
Remember, this was years before our country went race-mad. Back then, I proudly told anyone who’d listen that America was the place where the world was learning to live together. Americans of all stripes were going to school and working together, praying and playing together, and dating and marrying each other. We’d left the dark days of racial division behind and were finally judging people by the content of their character.
I wanted to say something but just sat there dumbstruck. With mounting distress, I listened to the rest of his presentation on what are now familiar DEI racism tropes: unconscious racial bias, systemic racism, white privilege, and micro-aggressions. These divisive concepts were entirely new to me, and I felt sure they were new to the hundreds of other attendees. I looked for signs of disagreement among them, but everyone just listened impassively.
Martin Luther King Jr. taught us that racism is ignorance because it ascribes characteristics to people based on the color of their skin rather than the content of their character. Why would any well-meaning person want to replace the waning
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Good heavens, she’s been feeding well at the trough! Can you take a Two Ton Tawana seriously long enough to sit through her talk? At least she isn’t sitting on anyone, that could prove fatal.
Perhaps the speaker was right.
Not in the fact the white man didn’t speak in the elevator. But the fact that he sat there in silence as he was called a racist?
What a cuck.
Yes! Chit chat is just stupid.
“hey, looks like we might get some rain today!”
whatever
Because they all well knew that speaking up - saying anything for that matter, no matter now banal or innocuous - would be construed as "racism" and could cost them their careers.
“JD Vance somehow became a success anyways. Even with his mom being a drug addict!”
When I was in High School biology, the teacher explained that Frogs lay thousands of eggs, but typically only 1 or two tadpoles make it to adulthood. Such could be said of JD Vance, he made it were thousands failed.
Racism isn’t so much about race or color or looks if one isn’t cared for it’s about their own culture they created of hate and actions.
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