What you don’t see is the human lying on the floor, bleeding to death. The robot ignored the human so it could repair that innocent grape first.

Your post almost seems to imply that we don’t still benefit from slavery... we just don’t have to personally see it anymore.

And then there’s all the cool things our slaves built:

that’s weird I thought all us black people just get jobs that we aren’t qualified for because affirmative action or some shit. But we don’t take em because we make enough money off welfare to live in mansions and eat shrimp. At least that’s what Ronald Raygun taught me. Who knew.

I worked at a family-run place where we often needed fill-in help. The only two people who didn’t “work out” were my roommate, and the friend of one of the other guys in the shop. They were the only Black people who ever worked there, and they each lasted one day due to some mysterious problems the boss had with their…

That's terribly sad. I'm guessing you're black. I guess some people don't understand that NYC is a very diverse place and that they're going to have to interact with people who don't look like them.

I agree with you— yet I wish you would not say “white mannerisms” etc. those of us who use those mannerism also contribute to them—

What I often say is that everything I do is “black” so if you don’t like blackness that applies to me too.

Is the only way I can escape racist judgement through renouncing my culture and my history?

I like being a black person, I don’t want to be “raceless” I like black people and black culture and blackness. And it often feels radical to do even that in this country where these things are often hated.

And you know I’m not…

Save your self, man. You’re arguing with a racist troll that is completely obsessed with another commenter — almost as obsessed as they are with trolling race-related posts.

I think (white) people tend to conflate “race is a social construct” with “race doesn’t exist”, when those aren’t even close to being equal statements. Race exists because white people created it in order to put themselves above everyone else.

That is fucking awful, people shouldn’t have to explain their NAME and be punished for it.

THIS, THIS, THIS, THIS, THIS, THIS, THIS, OMFG A THOUSAND TIMES THIS!

You’re saying that your organization makes sure that they have diverse applicants, and that they still hired you, a white woman, and in spite of that you still feel that they have too much affirmative action?

I have the opposite problem; my name, especially my last name, “reads” as black, but I’m white. So I rarely get the initial phone interview.

It’s my biggest worry coming from an HBCU. My name is generic, my job experience is varied, but my school is a dead giveaway what race I am. Let alone the fact that HBCUs are often discredited as not being on par with PWIs.

Starring this NOT because I like it, but because it happens to two friends of mine as well, friends who live in different states who don’t know each other. Different occupations, different ages, different sexes, both Black. Does Not Matter.

I used to get the weird look when people met me in person after they had spoken to me on the phone (not just interviews but any situation that led from a phone call to a face-to-face). I have a French first name, English last name but most certainly am not of European descent, plus I have a typical New York accent…

Here’s an image of two more exoplanets orbiting their star. At least I assume that’s what it is.

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I’m seeing great potential here to continue the proud Star Wars tradition of soft-racism.