Tuesday, September 8, 2009
is america a post racial society??
America won't allow itself to see past color. Racism as a whole was a learned behavior and with being said, anything learned or taken in can be purged; so why are there still hate crimes against minorities? Simple. The white race has surpassed racial oppression and cultural imperialism, and have took it there with ethnocentrism. The old adage "if it's white, it's right" is the standard America still stands on because that's what it's society was built on. After decades of the same behavior, it does not take someone in social or political power to crack the whip of oppression and/or racism, it could be a few managers at a second rate clothing store inside of a city mall; as is the case for my situation. I was employed at Levi's & Dockers By Most in the Sawgrass Mills Mall of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, and I witnessed blatant disrespect of my people on a daily basis. Not only were blacks watched as SOON as they entered the store, but one could also say they experienced retail harassment. They were followed around, and myself and another black co worker (we were the only two there, bearing the burden of everyone task imaginable throughout the whole store) were the delegates to carry out the mission. Day by day people from all walks of life, ethnicities, cultures, social classes or what have you patronized this establishment, but only the blacks had to receive the viciousness of judgement upon appearance of color. SMH. Anyhow one day, an assistant manager whom I'd grown to like, AGAIN came to me asking that I watch a group of Jamaican guys once they walked in the store, only this time she said: "watch those black bastards, I don't trust them." Yes, she did, as if she had gotten so comfortable with me that she could come out of her mouth with CONSPICUOUS disrespect to a fellow HUMAN BEING. No circumlocution to eventually get around to the fact that she WOULDN'T trust a black face; but total disrespect. So you ask, is America a post racial society? No it isn't.
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