Reply #22: Oddly, I'm starting to become racist against white people, too [View All]

[jobycom]

I'm not just saying that to sound cool, I really am. My first instinct in any situation involving whites and another race now is to not trust the white guy. When i see a cop pull over a black motorist, or arrest a black shoplifter I assume racism. WHen I hear about a black man being "roughed up" by cops, I assume the cops are guilty. I assume the white guy was lying, the white shopkeeper was discriminating, the white boss was discriminating.

I've gotten into big fights with various employers before over the issue. Last fight was last year with a shop manager because I thought he was firing black employees too quickly. He wanted to fire one guy he had just hired and replace him with a white cousin who was looking for a job. I jumped all over him for it (we're co-equal employees, neither of us had authority over the other) and complained to our boss about it. It turned out in that case I was wrong--the employee had lied about his experience and almost got someone killed because of his lack of experience, and had some other issues--but that was my first instinct. (I think overall I was right, though, because not all of the black employees he had fired had done things that incompetent, and he fired them for things he let white employees get away with. And for the record, his turnover rate got better after our fight).

Anyway, I'm white, and my first instinct is to not trust whites. I've lost a few friends over it, and don't get invited to many parties anymore. :-)