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What state do you live in where they have neighborhoods where only Nigerians live, or only white people live? All the neighborhoods I’ve ever seen have multiple races living there.
All the Asian or Nigerian parts of town I’ve seen are the business districts; not neighborhoods.
Are you assuming all well off white people vote the same, and fight for the same causes?
What lucrative advantages do white people have that non-whites do not?
They have the advantage of their white skin. White skin and a Christian name will put you at the top of the resume pile and will get you considered by a white supervisor to be someone they can relate to better than a person whose culture, dialect, or general appearance they fear, doubt, or have no experience with.
Depending on the supervisor, having a noticeably non-white name and background will get the next person put at the top of that supervisor's list, so there isn't any underlying, one-sided, across the board, institutional preference at work.
You never worked for an employer with an affirmative action program that gave preference to hiring and promoting minorities? You never noticed a disproportionate number of minorities working in government jobs? You did not notice that the Obama administration gave serious preference to appointing blacks? You never had anyone in your family denied college or grad school because minorities were given preference? I am not arguing the right or wrong of these programs I am just pointing out that you may have missed a few things that were happening right in front of you. You want to experience being unaccepted try to join a social group that is black. Such as all the black athletes on your team that only socialize in their own group. you may be on the team but you are not part of their group and they will let you know in no uncertain terms. You can be friends with them individually but you are not accepted at their table.
Do you think the majority of black hires are due to affirmative action? AA is not designed to hand blacks a job on a silver platter. It is there to assure people don't have discriminatory hiring practices. This means......why did you pass over these qualified minorities to hire less qualified people of your own ethnicity/religion/gender/whatever.
How large is that list of black managers who do the same thing and hire the people they feel more comfortable around? Black CEOs and upper management who set policy in big corporations anre a minute fraction of the WASPS who lead industry.
What do you think their experience is being accepted at the white man's table? Could it be a similar experience?
What I'm asking is how commonly do you think it is that a minority with fewer qualifications is hired over a white with more qualifications? The only companies that are affected by Affirmative Action are companies that discriminate.
Due to slavery, Black people are just as likely to have a Christian name as white people. Skin color isn’t an issue with a resume.
The ability to speak proper English is not "white privilege", that's common sense in the service industry. When you work in an industry where you have to deal with customers, the ability to speak proper English is very important and should get you ahead of someone with poor English speaking skills.
