“You demonstrate one of the real evils of affirmative actions. . “
So true, I had a friend (white) who is an RN, and she told me once that it is black patients who often reject or complain about having black nurses.
That struck me as so odd, I asked her, why, you’d think if anything they’d be happy to have black nurses etc.
She said, no, many of them think the black nurses and medical professionals are not as well qualified, but got and retained their positions due to affirmative action.
I found that really sad, on so many levels. The nurses were probably just as well qualified as anyone else, but are assumed not to be, and have to continually prove themselves even to their own race just because of our stupid affirmative action tendencies in this country.
I wouldn’t be surprised if most people, not just blacks, felt that way, but only blacks feel safe in acting on that. A white person could never get away with rejecting help from a black nurse, after all. That would be racist.
I just watched an interesting older movie, called “Crash”. It was supposed to be about racism, and I don’t know if I was supposed to feel bad as a white person, but in many ways it expressed the real conundrum of trying not to be “racist”, while two black guys commit acts of violence against white people all the while complaining that the white people are looking at them like they are criminals.
My favorite was the white woman played by Sandra Bullock, complaining to her husband that she “knew” the two black kids were up to no good, but she “knew” that she wasn’t supposed to notice them, and her fear of being a “racist” is why they ended up getting their car stolen.