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For black CEOs in Silicon Valley, humiliation is a part of doing business

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677 points saeedjabbar | 1 comments | 16 Jun 20 15:19 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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gerland[dead post] ◴[17 Jun 20 11:48 UTC] No.23550285[source]▶
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wwright ◴[17 Jun 20 12:06 UTC] No.23550392[source]▶
So you are saying that although black people are around 1/8 of the US population, we should hire only around 2% black people, because otherwise we would be wasting more intelligent people on manual labor?

You realize the implicit argument there, right?

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gerland ◴[17 Jun 20 13:13 UTC] No.23550931[source]▶
I say you should hire the people who hve the skills and do the work, not trying to hire 1/8 blacks just because. If I would guess, I would say that the reason for that disparity is the average economical status and environment. I've lived among the white trash long enough to know that most of them won't go anywhere, and it's not entirely their own fault. Why should a struggling white kid have it any different than a black kid? That's just pure racism. Trying to make every poverty stricken black successful will have the same effect that trying to elevate all the poor in every other race. Why should it be reserved for some special priviledge group?

Don't put words in my mouth, you sound like CNN "journalist".

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1. flatline ◴[17 Jun 20 18:21 UTC] No.23554797[source]▶
From your previous comment:

> I'm looking at the generation of white males in their 30 and it is just sad. What was done to their dreams and opportunities was a crime.

Does the same not apply to all the black males, females, etc., who were graduating and entering the job market during the financial crisis of 2008?

It is not as though your observations are incorrect, they are incomplete, and this is what the parent comment was alluding to, and what many people just don't have a contextual basis for understanding. The term "racism" in the US generally refers to hundreds of years of systematic prejudice and violence against people of color, that is still ongoing today. Discrimination against people based on their skin color - for example against white people - is morally abhorrent but in a completely different category. It is hard to see white privilege when you are white living among white people, it's just a fact of life. If you really want to understand, you'll have to try to see the world from a different viewpoint. The lack of this viewpoint is why you feel people are trying to put words in your mouth, it's nothing personal, it's a systemic problem in which all of us to a greater or lesser extent play a part.