I wonder what impressions people are forming, what fears are being confirmed, by watching something like Ferguson, where it's hard for many to understand rioting and tearing/burning down a community because what appears to be a big, street thuggish dude robbed a store, assaulted a cop while fighting for his gun, then charged the cop with intent and was killed for it...because the cop is white?!?
Every possible fear and negative impression ever formed about black America is reinforced by what is shown on TV and by trying to wrap your mind around its logic. That Ferguson comes after Trayvon and a knockout game summer is even more negative reinforcement, but now raised to a higher level.
So, back to the job interviews. If the employer has been watching the news, are you, young black man or woman, going to be seen as you are?
Or will you instead be seen via the impressions that have been formed/reinforced about "black" thanks this time to Ferguson?
If so, what does that mean for you if the employer has many diverse applicants to choose from?
From this point of view, you can see how normal people like us, regardless of color, people who just want a job or just want to hire someone of quality to help us do the work we want to do, are being made to carry this "baggage" of negative, false impressions, all in the name of community agitation and for the profitable glory of some political power.
The only place you can pile on garbage like this and out comes gold is on a compost pile, not on a constituency group.
This same divisive, community agitator garbage doesn't work well in the school system either.
Nope, it's the truth that sets us normal people free, not their garbage that keeps our reactions and results chained to bad impressions, thanks to their (and now our) lies that forge each link in that chain.
Will ours be the generation that finally breaks these chains or will their circle remain unbroken?
(with us trapped inside)
the sad thing is that person will most likely not be given benefit of any doubts. This is why is is so incumbent on black indivuals to not be scared away from identifying and solving the problems in the black "community " generally- why whites can only do so much to help them.
Because I know most white people do not just lump all blacks into a group (like they do to THEMSELVES) but treat each person individually. For instance, if I were an employer and had a job opening and one of my existing black employees applied for it, if he were qualified I might give it to him rather than to anyone from the outside that I didnt know, black or white. However, if I decided to go outside I might hire the white guy not the black, all else being equal, because I know the general score on which group generally has a better track record for holding jobs. That's probably called racist these days but how do we overcome common sense (as much as obama et al would like us to.)?