While that sucks, covid will eventually fix the problem.

So those people who had a problem with his policies? Where were they all the other years BEFORE him when the white folks were the ones getting promoted because of their skin color?

Oh white people and their systems, pretending to do good while doing the opposite, when will you stop being shit people.

Devilassdemons gonna devilassdemon

This was a setup by the good_ole_boys® in the department because they did not like the diversity efforts. They weren’t getting the promotions so they did this. Amazing how fast they acted upon this. If it were POC officers claiming such, I doubt there would be such speed.

6 of 15. So over half of the positions went to whites but that’s not enough.

He should have remembered not to say the quiet parts out loud. There are also all sorts of other expressions one can use (“closer ties to the community” etc - like dog whistles in reverse) that won’t give lawyers anything to latch on to.

yeah it figures. even in these institutions with all sorts of problematic policies on the way they interact with minorities, their hiring practices in recruiting minorities and promotions are abysmal, unless the city is overwhelmingly black. and of course in these cases of first responder institutions (police, fire,…

And you are absolutely right about that.

The negative to it is the effect it’s had on my grandparents and great-grandparents twisting themselves into little knots trying to hide who the were. They ended up in a pretty terrible state because of it.

Yeah, I’ve never heard a white person say someone is “passing” in regular conversation either. If they find out a person they thought was white is actually black, they just sit dumbfounded.

I have a few distant relatives (now, the elders), who are still “passing”. They still mingle and interact with the black relatives, but only on their terms (i.e. away from their towns, communication through phones, etc.). 

My great grandmother’s father was White. She was 5' 11", had blonde hair and was “Passing”. She got a job as secretary for an all White office and did very well.

The woman said she was heartbroken her grandmother felt the need to mask her identity but was grateful for the privilege her decision provided her.

I found out in my 50s that my mom’s male line was descended from a multiracial family from TN. My gg-grandfather (half Cherokee, quarter white, quarter black) moved to KY during the Civil War and became ‘white’. The part of the family that stayed in TN is still ‘black’, even though we all have mixed heritage.

Me, I’m…

I’ve been able to track pathways from “Black” to “White” for individual people in my family because they lived long enough that they show up on many U.S. Censuses. While a baby/child, they were enumerated as “Black” (or an archaic synonym for Black, such as “Negro,” etc.) While in their teens, 20s, and 30s, they were…