Black professionals getting territorial when another black person shows up? Come on son.

[T-K-G]

Man, please tell me this isn't widespread when in small groups of blacks in a professional environment. Like seriously, this is very disheartening and even more worrisome than i'd imagined. Omg, pet negro??? This isn't true is it?? Im seriously taking issue with this guy's...

this shyt is very real, even happens when you don't even work at the place sometimes

walk into an business building and they send their top flight c00n to "help"

you be expecting a nikka to be on some shyt, then you see him walking up with the

 

[futuretrunks]

This is good thread op so relatable.

It's like passive aggressive behaviour and that they feel uncomfortable when the see another black person in the company.

 

[hypo666]

Thats fukked up,it reminds me of how many women carry on in offices with other women. Thats right, it's a bytch move and any man who acts all jealous, and treats his white co workers better, is a bytch. Needs to put on a skirt and bra ,and go be around the women.

 

[TXTrill1]

If that's you in your avi, it makes sense. You don't look like the kind of person I would want to work with.

 

[MaccabeanRebel]

No shot. You ever wonder if its how you asked the question? Or maybe he already addressed it? I think were hyper sensetive about this shyt. I mean engineering and STEM is a rather competitive field, when your at the top you almost have to be on some highlander shyt.

Ive seen white boys go at each others neck for stupid shyt too. Im rather selective of the brothas i fukk with at work, because i know they all aint about shyt...the ones who are i deal with

 

[Daniel.]

I've gotten that from a black female interviewer when I went in for an interview that the company approached me for in one of those bigger wall street companies that I can't even remember the name for. I had no interest in the position short of the interview experience and the look she gave me upon seeing me, while in a suit and professionally dressed was incredible.

That said at my office in NYU there is literally one other black male working in there, somewhat older, and dude approaches me like he wants to take me on as a mentor. Very cool, very inclined to give advice and talk about his path and what I can/should look for. So it sucks to hear that type of shyt happens when I have such a positive association with a similar environment.

 

[Mr Rager]

If that's you in your avi, you look like the kind of person I would not want to work with

 

[Hiphoplives4eva]

You're probably not a c00n doing good work. Expect the hate. I'm dealing with it too.

It's a poisonous environment. fukking me up in so many ways I don't know up from down. I work at a tattoo studio. Youngest guy there. Highest intelligence. Had to start wearing a tie to work to get respect.

They walk on egg shells around me cause I see through them. Even as I type this.

A tattoo artist wearing a tie to work?

 

[2manyFCKNrappers]

I'm always the token black at companies I work for but luckily, 80% of the time, when I come to work for a new company and see another brother or sister....at first glance they give me the look....but it doesn't last too long.

I think it's because they know the weight and pressure we're facing in the corporate setting. One of us can really fukk it up for all of us and I'm assuming if they've been there for a minute, they've seen one of us fukk up and they have to suffer. I've seen it too, so sometimes I understand where the hesitation comes from.

After a few days or weeks go by and they're observing like see I'm a hard worker and about my business, just before the work day is over, or in the break room or by the copy machine ect. , I'll get the

You can't just expect nikkas to like you or be cordial with you because you are both black. Sometimes it's the same expectancy for another black person to like you by your white co-workers that puts up a shield too. They are automatically thinking that just because another black person comes along that now you're going to form some super black alliance and outperform them. That happened to me once about 7 years ago. Me and two other brothers were working on wall street, all coming in one after the other. We got cool and decided we wanted to work together and form our own team within the company. We started getting more applications and closing more deals than everybody else and those cacs got mad. We formed a super sales group and they started to hate on us. They broke up the group by making us managers of other teams....that was the only way they could do it without losing us.

The point is, that there is still a slavery dynamic working in the workplace. We can't be seen getting too happy together because it still upsets massa to this day. He still fears we may have the power to overthrow his plantation, which we do. So much of the shade is just protection or camouflage to hide their real true feelings of comradery. Trust me, when they go home, they think about talking to you and wonder what you're really like.

 

[lenfantdelacapitale]

So Doc Rivers really posts here. It's a pissing contest among black folks that reach that level which is sad because it speaks to (1) insecurities and (2) at the end of the day, you are a worker and expendable just ask the people at the 2008 financial crisis who were sent packing home at those big Wall Street corporations.

I remember while doing this one-year consultancy/externship in Kenya. The program was meant to attract African ancestry MBAs from the top schools in the world (Europe/N.America) and the organization will place you in a small-medium sized business of your interest within East Africa.
A bunch of Nigerian dudes based in the States went to Ivy League B-schools and were asking everybody else where they went to school and comparing which school was better.

I am sitting there thinking "you dumbass we are all here which means we are all competent and worth something since we were chosen by this program." All the Ivy League B-school wanted to segregate from the group.

 

[Blackout]

I'm always the token black at companies I work for but luckily, 80% of the time, when I come to work for a new company and see another brother or sister....at first glance they give me the look....but it doesn't last too long.

I think it's because they know the weight and pressure we're facing in the corporate setting. One of us can really fukk it up for all of us and I'm assuming if they've been there for a minute, they've seen one of us fukk up and they have to suffer. I've seen it too, so sometimes I understand where the hesitation comes from.

After a few days or weeks go by and they're observing like see I'm a hard worker and about my business, just before the work day is over, or in the break room or by the copy machine ect. , I'll get the

You can't just expect nikkas to like you or be cordial with you because you are both black. Sometimes it's the same expectancy for another black person to like you by your white co-workers that puts up a shield too. They are automatically thinking that just because another black person comes along that now you're going to form some super black alliance and outperform them. That happened to me once about 7 years ago. Me and two other brothers were working on wall street, all coming in one after the other. We got cool and decided we wanted to work together and form our own team within the company. We started getting more applications and closing more deals than everybody else and those cacs got mad. We formed a super sales group and they started to hate on us. They broke up the group by making us managers of other teams....that was the only way they could do it without losing us.

The point is, that there is still a slavery dynamic working in the workplace. We can't be seen getting too happy together because it still upsets massa to this day. He still fears we may have the power to overthrow his plantation, which we do. So much of the shade is just protection or camouflage to hide their real true feelings of comradery. Trust me, when they go home, they think about talking to you and wonder what you're really like.

Thats the good thing about starting a business. You guys can still collaborate and start one on the side without them knowing so they cant stop it.

As for the thread:

Say fukk the c00n and do you.

Dont let c00ns win by letting them affect you.

The are most likely just stereotyping you like most racist white people do until they get to know you. They have kissed so much white ass they start acting like massa.

I have a c00n at work too. I ignored him and did my job. I treat him like I do with most white people. With no emotion whatsoever. He picked up on it and tried to talk to me and now he is less than a c00n than he was before. Even if he didnt do that I would still be ignoring him to this day.

Once you have a day off or something then look for real brothas to associate with on off hours.

Plus Im looking to start a black business so whatever they do doesnt affect me because I will still be uplifitng my people.

 

[LurkMoar]

I'm always the token black at companies I work for but luckily, 80% of the time, when I come to work for a new company and see another brother or sister....at first glance they give me the look....but it doesn't last too long.

I think it's because they know the weight and pressure we're facing in the corporate setting. One of us can really fukk it up for all of us and I'm assuming if they've been there for a minute, they've seen one of us fukk up and they have to suffer. I've seen it too, so sometimes I understand where the hesitation comes from.

After a few days or weeks go by and they're observing like see I'm a hard worker and about my business, just before the work day is over, or in the break room or by the copy machine ect. , I'll get the

You can't just expect nikkas to like you or be cordial with you because you are both black. Sometimes it's the same expectancy for another black person to like you by your white co-workers that puts up a shield too. They are automatically thinking that just because another black person comes along that now you're going to form some super black alliance and outperform them. That happened to me once about 7 years ago. Me and two other brothers were working on wall street, all coming in one after the other. We got cool and decided we wanted to work together and form our own team within the company. We started getting more applications and closing more deals than everybody else and those cacs got mad. We formed a super sales group and they started to hate on us. They broke up the group by making us managers of other teams....that was the only way they could do it without losing us.

The point is, that there is still a slavery dynamic working in the workplace. We can't be seen getting too happy together because it still upsets massa to this day. He still fears we may have the power to overthrow his plantation, which we do. So much of the shade is just protection or camouflage to hide their real true feelings of comradery. Trust me, when they go home, they think about talking to you and wonder what you're really like.

cacs promoted yall an they aint eeeen know it

 

[2manyFCKNrappers]

cacs promoted yall an they aint eeeen know it

They just wanted us to teach the rest of the sales team our closing secrets and all the strategies we came up with when we were the A-Team. We didn't teach them shyt. It was an all Jewish company and we were the only blacks there. The best part about the whole thing was when I got promoted, another black girl got put on my team who ended up being the love of my life. They tried to destroy black excellence and birthed black love.

 

[Buckeye Fever]

I hate nikkaz like that.

When I'm at a job, I always acknowledge my fellow brothaz

 

[Jhoon]

In a nutshell, this is what's wrong with too many of us. Instead of being ambassadors to our companies, looking to bringet in the best of us, we act as if other blacks have Hepatitis and keep them away.