Thread: Whites and discrimination: who fights for them?

Only once has a person ever stood up during one of my diversity workshops to announce, in a chilling voice drenched with pride, that she was a racist. That young woman happened to be an African-American college student.

Rather than scold, I asked a few simple questions regarding her future goals: What affect might her beliefs have on her ability to get a job and have a successful career? Did she feel her beliefs made it more difficult for her to succeed in a college, where more than 70 percent of the faculty was white? Finally, I asked her to consider how she might react if one of the European Americans had stood up and said, “I am racist.” (The young lady did not respond.)

Though it attracts far less attention in the media, racial bias and color bias among African Americans has emerged as growing workplace problems. Discrimination complaints involving skin color – light skin v. dark skin – are a fast-growing segment of Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) lawsuits. Discrimination against whites is an issue as well.

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http://tri-statedefenderonline.com/a...hem/Page1.html

Forget about some of the other junk in the article, but the rest is rather interesting.

Originally Posted by Sigrid

Only once has a person ever stood up during one of my diversity workshops to announce, in a chilling voice drenched with pride, that she was a racist. That young woman happened to be an African-American college student.

I always wonder what kind of thinking is going on when a white liberal is faced with this kind of situation, when there is such a contradiction between what they are preaching and the reality in front of them.