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re: Any occurrences of being possibly racist in the work place?
Posted on 12/31/16 at 1:01 pm to TbirdSpur2010
Posted on 12/31/16 at 1:01 pm to TbirdSpur2010
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I have some black fiends
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Posted on 12/31/16 at 2:07 pm to SafetySam
Posted on 12/31/16 at 2:30 pm to TbirdSpur2010
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Texan-American
Why are you ashamed of being African-American?
Would be a shame if an Irish or Italian man called himself a Massechusetts-American because he was ashamed of his heritage.
Posted on 12/31/16 at 4:44 pm to Sleeping Tiger
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Why are you ashamed of being African-American?
Here you go with your bullshite again
Why are you so fixated on my skin color and the color of those around me? In the other thread you were irked because you assumed I was proud of my wife because she's white (with no evidence to support such an assertion). Now you're assuming I'm ashamed of being black (which is only part of my heritage) because I engage in Texan hubris (which is ubiquitous, as you're well aware).
Posted on 12/31/16 at 5:09 pm to TbirdSpur2010
IYAM? Bringing up yams is racist
Posted on 12/31/16 at 5:31 pm to Da Blitz
If You Ask Me 
Posted on 12/31/16 at 5:42 pm to GameCocky88
I work in industrial construction so racism is everywhere, and although it's normally in good fun, going all ways, it can certainly get really uncomfortable.
Posted on 12/31/16 at 8:29 pm to TbirdSpur2010
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Not sure. I identify as Texan-American
Posted on 12/31/16 at 8:39 pm to GameCocky88
Unless you're treating someone negatively because of their race, it's not racist.
Really not sure how this definition became perverted over time, but merely pointing out that race is a thing is not racist
Really not sure how this definition became perverted over time, but merely pointing out that race is a thing is not racist
Posted on 12/31/16 at 9:34 pm to PAGator
Racism should be anything that takes race into account.
If you get special treatment because of your race, it's racism.
The fact organizations need be conscious of percentage of whites to blacks to asians ect, is racism.
Anti-racism is racism.
Acting in a pure way as if race is non-existent in a flatline way is the only way to not be racist.
And jews of course get their own terminology for racism because they're special -- anti-semitism.
If you get special treatment because of your race, it's racism.
The fact organizations need be conscious of percentage of whites to blacks to asians ect, is racism.
Anti-racism is racism.
Acting in a pure way as if race is non-existent in a flatline way is the only way to not be racist.
And jews of course get their own terminology for racism because they're special -- anti-semitism.
Posted on 1/1/17 at 11:20 am to TeLeFaWx
I'd be more bothered by being Texican than being black.
Posted on 1/3/17 at 4:32 pm to Pavoloco83
If so, life goes on.
Posted on 1/4/17 at 10:19 am to GameCocky88
A white girl in my office genuinely thinks it's ok for her to use the N-word bc she has a slight tan and her grandfather was Mexican. She will say it in front of anybody and I think the only reason she hasn't been fired is bc someone higher up wants to sleep with her.
Posted on 1/4/17 at 7:05 pm to UMRealist
Union shop.
This is how you have to deal with these things and why I despise human resource managers.
Two employees start shoving each other. One white/one black.
In my office, with a shop steward, I try to figure out what is going on. All hell breaks loose.
I break up a melee, standing between them.
I've had enough. Fired both of them.
Actually, per corporate H/R rules, they were suspended pending investigation.
Two months later, I was grilled by our EEOC representative.
It seems the black employee had filed suit. She had recorded our conversation. She had the goods to prove that I was a racist.
She had subtly recorded our conversation.
I learned something that day. Recording a conversation without saying that this is being recorded is inadmissible.
This is how you have to deal with these things and why I despise human resource managers.
Two employees start shoving each other. One white/one black.
In my office, with a shop steward, I try to figure out what is going on. All hell breaks loose.
I break up a melee, standing between them.
I've had enough. Fired both of them.
Actually, per corporate H/R rules, they were suspended pending investigation.
Two months later, I was grilled by our EEOC representative.
It seems the black employee had filed suit. She had recorded our conversation. She had the goods to prove that I was a racist.
She had subtly recorded our conversation.
I learned something that day. Recording a conversation without saying that this is being recorded is inadmissible.
This post was edited on 1/4/17 at 7:07 pm
Posted on 1/13/17 at 8:36 am to GameCocky88
Damn it guys. I just pulled one off and not 10 seconds later the aforementioned asian guy went for the fences again.
My story
A coworker was coming around asking if we would like to buy some of her nieces girl scout cookies. This lead to a story about how she, the coworker, was kicked out of girl scouts when her mom took the money that was intended to buy other peoples cookies and used it to buy crack.
Semi Racist part: The girl telling the story is half white-half black. I assumed her mom was the black half. I was wrong.
Asian Guy story
Sitting in the morning sales meeting, someone brings up the fact that our new hire wasn't at work yesterday. This person, black female, has been under employment for a total of three days. We are discussing whether she legit quit or if she called in saying that she was in the hospital or some other credible excuse.
Semi racist part: Asian guy pipes up and says, "Don't worry guys, she's just taking an early MLK day."
I couldn't help myself. I laughed my arse off as did half the room.
My story
A coworker was coming around asking if we would like to buy some of her nieces girl scout cookies. This lead to a story about how she, the coworker, was kicked out of girl scouts when her mom took the money that was intended to buy other peoples cookies and used it to buy crack.
Semi Racist part: The girl telling the story is half white-half black. I assumed her mom was the black half. I was wrong.
Asian Guy story
Sitting in the morning sales meeting, someone brings up the fact that our new hire wasn't at work yesterday. This person, black female, has been under employment for a total of three days. We are discussing whether she legit quit or if she called in saying that she was in the hospital or some other credible excuse.
Semi racist part: Asian guy pipes up and says, "Don't worry guys, she's just taking an early MLK day."
I couldn't help myself. I laughed my arse off as did half the room.
This post was edited on 1/13/17 at 8:38 am
Posted on 1/13/17 at 8:49 am to GameCocky88
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They guy was stone cold serious.
You work with Steve Austin?
Posted on 1/13/17 at 9:06 am to TbirdSpur2010
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Texan-American
Merica!
Took lots of TN and KY lives to free you from that bastard Santa Anna. I know toy are proud of Texas and all, but once statehood was achieved, it is "united we stand, decided we fall"
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Not sure.
As for racism, Japanese seem the most racist humans on the planet
EDIT : I hate Apple and their auto correct
Toy should have been you
Decided should have been divided
This post was edited on 1/13/17 at 9:21 am
Posted on 1/13/17 at 9:18 am to Da Blitz
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Bringing up yams is racist
You kids, do you even know the difference?
Yams are a monocot from the Dioscoreaceae family. Sweet potatoes are a dicot from the Convolvulaceae family. Therefore, they are about as distantly related as two flowering plants can be. Culinarily, yams are starchier and drier than sweet potatoes.
Pretty sure what you call yams are actually sweet potatoes which are native to tropical Central and South America and were in the diet of the native indians who are more commonly related to asians thought to have migrated across the Alaskan land bridge before it disappeared.
Posted on 1/13/17 at 9:29 am to UMRealist
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I think the only reason she hasn't been fired is bc someone higher up wants to sleep with her.
No pic?
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