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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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HR departments have become very powerful in large corporations due to the DEI power they wield. They may have power, but they have no idea how to run a company while banning meritocracy. One of the reasons companies like Boeing have so many problems building aircraft today.
Bullied by blacks.
Why didn’t the black man initiate a conversation? I usually don’t talk with strangers in the cities, and certainly wouldn’t have spoken to this black racist.
When this first started in the Navy I attended one where the facilitators were two females. This was before women were (ridiculously) assigned to ships. The first thing one of the women said was, I don’t want to hear anything about women taking men’s shore duty billets. In other words, the biggest complaint from the mass majority of white males was not significant enough to talk about, only complaints by black people and women.
Agreed. The smart alec in me, if I was the white man who stood up to announce that I was the one in the elevator with the black man, would have said, “No he’s racist for not starting a conversation with me because I’m white.”
Bkmk
Because he was fullfilling his dreams of the BAD WHITE!
The worst thing to be in American probably isn’t being black. Being poor black is tough. If your going to be poor black, you probably want to be rural so you have a better chance of surviving your youth. Born poor and black is hard.
The worst possible thing to be is being born poor, white, and rural. You got nothing, nobody cares, nobody looks at you as wanted. The city people don’t want you, the corporations and schools don’t want you, business get no breaks for hiring you. You can be smart, hard working, but your chances of leaving your rural environment are low even with these traits. You can get an education, but your not going to get a single break because you are white. Nobody wants another hard working white guy at the companies, they need to fill other quotas. This is why you see so many rural kids, and rural poor kids, in the armed forces.
I in my old age, have grown weary at the ‘divisive’ nature of the modern ‘race baiters’. The belief that the system is still present for people to overcome being color and birth status has actually grown. Virtually every American I speak to believes that people can ‘take care of themselves if they want to’ by hard work. That has always been the real miracle of the Republic and it’s Constitution. The socialists grow ever closer to destroying that dream because they have convinced so many that you can’t ‘make it’ by hard work.
I despise the lie that is the basic premise of Socialists in the United States, and say “Yes, you can take care of yourself if your willing to work hard and not think of yourself as oppressed”.
I don’t talk to 98% of the people I am around in public because I don’t care about banal small talk just to be polite. Has nothing to do with their color of skin. It is because I don’t care why you are in town or the color of your clothes or the weather etc...
The employees at General Dynamics were forced to attend diversity and inclusion training. I know it made me angry as it was entirely anti-white. It also annoyed the employees I dared talk to about it.
I didn’t talk to people I hadn’t already known for a long time after the training. We were encouraged to rat on people for “incorrect political thinking.” No kidding. I had a conversation with a black who had returned from Army service in Kuwait. The subject turned to female circumcision. He thought it was okay as it was their culture. I said I wouldn’t allow it over here as this is our culture. He reported me for “incorrect political thinking.” I was warned by the HR manager that he could “probably” ignore it this time but to never risk talking to that man again. I went further. The people I knew and was friends with also stopped talking to anyone we didn’t already know. Several times I and others would recruit a witness to go along when we had to have conversations with blacks. It was common where whites would be fired by the simple accusation brought by a black. Incidentally, this only worked on us pee-on whites. Nothing happened when blacks complained about white top level managers.
JD Vance somehow became a success anyways. Even with his mom being a drug addict!
Critical race theory in one image.
I can't imaging having had to attend one of these struggle sessions. To hell with everyone involved in forcing them on people.
“””””You want racism? Go up north. I was shocked. I had never heard the kind of racism I ran into up there. Black, Brown, Yellow - anyone not white was open game in private conversation, but they went out of their way publicly to point out and condemn ‘racism’.”””””
I saw that in California.
Imagine pretending to take that seriously. I would have needed a crate of whisky and a barf bucket nearby having to look and smell that creature.
Same here.
While I agree with and understand your point, I sometimes engage with a positive or humorous remark (”cute baby”, or seeing someone who is using the small shopping cart that is overflowing, “One more item, and you are going to need a bigger cart.”), and walk away. No inviting conversation, but hoping to spread a little positivity (spelling?).
On the other hand, I will be rude to a rude person (the man or lady blocking the aisle with their cart parked blocking the whole aisle while selecting there items and not caring about others) by bumping their cart out of the way and saying “other people need to use this aisle too”
I’m not sure, but I think this is because I am an old guy and want to pass along good when I can and lessons when needed.
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