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16231, THIS IS SILLY
Posted by nahymsa, Wed Mar-28-01 03:03 PM
You do not need to have lived/educated yourself with white people to get a job with white people.

White employers hire who they need..period. That is why white owned hospitals recruit doctors & nurses who can't even speak the language...the demand is more than they can produce of from their group.

Regardless of what school you graduate from, white employers hire theirs first and ours last and often thats' forced.

The idea that you have to know how to interact with caucasians to get a job with caucasians is a fallacy. The only thing that interacting with caucasians teaches you is how much they don't interact with us & are happy NOT to. The only time this interaction may matter is when a white employer's making a choice btwn 2 of black people - in which case they will chose the black that makes them the least nervous.

Black people do not have to learn to deal with white people, we are the minority in this country..we deal with white people from birth until death on a regular basis. That is a given. What's really being said is that black people have to learn what white people like & want and alter our behavior so that they will accept us when they have no alternative but to give us a job. Let's be real.

Black colleges are known for providing the foundation that allows black students to thrive educationally within their own communities. is that a problem, hell no. Its exactly what our white counterparts do everyday..its what every group does everyday from Jesuit to Jewish to military schools. The problem is that Blacks do not have enough of the business to employee our graduates once they've received their education. And that is by design. Integration diluted black entreprenaurship & the black economy we could've built. So were are forced to essentially beg for whatever scraps the white man will give us. Depending on HIS situation, he will give the job up.

Trust me, on a regular basis, white applicants with less education & less qualifications are hired over Black people for more money.....on every employ level. If you think your Harvard degree gets you as much as your white coworker's Harvard - shit even Dartmouth degree - you're trippin'.

Whatever college a person choses, this "learn to deal with whitey" excuse for attending a PREDOMINATELY WHITE college is a bunch of bull. Whites only deals with you when HE wants too anyway. No amount of Carlton antics will change that & that's what black people need to be focusing on. But why, when the best of us are happy with going to THEIR schools, getting a job in THEIR company, buying THEIR products and imitating THEIR ways.
We are the only people acting like the word "OUR" is bad..their shit ain't integrated yet.