Most Racist Industry

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i feel like this forum invests a lot of time into dwelling in negative head spaces likes there's never balance

"what are the worst places for black people to go visit, live work etc are constant themes but there's no other side to it just WOAT lists discussed to no end. it's demoralizing to constantly congregate to talk about how bad shyt is for brehs. don't say it's to raise awareness either. the woke era was damn near a decade, people have information now and not much has changed.

Are the conversations valid? sure if they are leading to something besides a pity party. It might not be intentional but it's become the defining character of this sub

I feel you and personally I try to vary my own thread topics to avoid falling into the rut you outlined in your post. However I do think people may appreciate a bit of perspective of those working in these industries and their experiences. Many may not understand the inner workings of mechanisms in these industries and how they contribute to systemic racism in our society.

 

[TEH]

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But Universities make sense

 

[Buckeye Fever]

Physical labor jobs is where racist supervisors can live out their slave-driver fantasies

 

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I totally agree with you @Booksnrain

I was going to work towards teaching African history/Black humanities or Black African and Afro-diasporic literature at the higher education level during my undergrad. This was always a passion of mine.

Ultimately, I decided against this after the extreme racism I experienced as a student, which included being publicly called a rape apologist and black male chauvinist by a white female student, when I challenged notorious sexual violence scholar/ open racist Susan Brownmiller’s words on Emmet Till.

When I confided in a professor about my struggles, she (a Black American women who’d been teaching for decades at the same school and wasn’t tenured ) told me that it won’t get easier. The American academe is violently, irreparably and deeply racist. I think as black people that we forget that it was academia which first legitimized racism into the medical, anthropological, psychological, historical, linguistic and artistic disciplines.

Now, on that same campus where the black female professor lacked tenure. A racist white man who preached false black crime statistics and anti-blackness was tenured

PWIs can be brutal and I perhaps I shouldn’t have gone. My mistake. Maybe I should have just gone out of state to the HBCU that wanted me instead smh.

I want to work at an HBCU so badly. But there’s rarely any positions open. I adjuncted at one last year and it was like night and day.

 

[WesCrook]

Construction

Brothers are left out in the cold when it comes to construction contracting. It's terrible.

 

[AtomicUse]

My wife is a doctor, she’s Asian. She actually enjoys dismantling the racist bs they try to pull on her practicing, and it happens so often she considers it a highly fulfilling part of her work.

Like she literally derives joy from styling on pretentious racist colleagues and administration.

I couldn’t believe it when I’d see it and she’d tell me about it and she’d literally get turned on.

It was like when Kobe talked about how he enjoyed getting boo’d and how it comforted him.

Engineering is numbers so I deal with people with meager social skills and nerds where if I’m lucky, have some manners.

 

[Geordi]

So many its hard to pick only one

The entertainment industry literally has segregated chitlin circuits for black performers who are "too black" for the white overseers to accept even when they are far more talented than their white counterparts.

 

[Thegospel]

i feel like this forum invests a lot of time into dwelling in negative head spaces likes there's never balance

"what are the worst places for black people to go visit, live work etc are constant themes but there's no other side to it just WOAT lists discussed to no end. it's demoralizing to constantly congregate to talk about how bad shyt is for brehs. don't say it's to raise awareness either. the woke era was damn near a decade, people have information now and not much has changed.

Are the conversations valid? sure if they are leading to something besides a pity party. It might not be intentional but it's become the defining character of this sub

Mind you. The same female who made this thread advocates for positive mental health for black men. Lol I just be laughing on this website fr

 

[42 Monks]

I also have a friend in the military whose experiences parallel mine in academia. (E.g. Promoting people with zero experience just cuz they are white.)
Incompetence. No objectivity in how rank is determined…

not to be contrary, but straight up - academia/college was what made me comfortable joining and staying in military

Whenever I went to some collaborative event or conference, it was some "he's only here because he's black" shyt. Which I probably could've tolerated if it was the only thing I had to deal with.

But even at my school, which was a black college , I got hit with various versions of "you gotta be the one to create change and rise above because be honest - just look at your peers " to the point where it was obvious I could never JUST get an A and go about my business. I was getting graded and scrutinized harder for not 'utilizing my full potential' constantly. Will never forget my friend spelling the world miracle with a U and rambling about obesity when the topic was religion and still getting an attaboy grade - but I got a C not because of the quality of the paper I wrote, but because the professor felt it would motivate me more.

I'll never get over the fact that I had to pay money to learn how shytty universities can be.

 

[Ol’Otis]

Physical labor jobs

Especially construction

 

[MoveForward]

Law Enforcement!

 

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not to be contrary, but straight up - academia/college was what made me comfortable joining and staying in military

Whenever I went to some collaborative event or conference, it was some "he's only here because he's black" shyt. Which I probably could've tolerated if it was the only thing I had to deal with.

But even at my school, which was a black college , I got hit with various versions of "you gotta be the one to create change and rise above because be honest - just look at your peers " to the point where it was obvious I could never JUST get an A and go about my business. I was getting graded and scrutinized harder for not 'utilizing my full potential' constantly. Will never forget my friend spelling the world miracle with a U and rambling about obesity when the topic was religion and still getting am attaboy grade - but I got a C not because of the quality of the paper I wrote, but because the professor felt it would motivate me more.

I'll never get over the fact that I had to pay money to learn how shytty universities can be.

I don’t doubt ANY of this shyt. The way many can turn useless skills into something to brag about and aggrandize their roles while being completely out of touch with real issues is bad

 

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Law Enforcement!

Yeah I was just thinking about this shyt. All aspects of it. From the police right up to the judges.

 

[Wildhundreds]

What industry have you encountered the most racism in?

I mean, I’ve heard horror stories from all of them.

For my experience, I’m gonna say universities are the OG boss of all racists. It’s hard to even put into words. The pretension…the arrogance, blocking opportunities for minorities while preaching social justice, punishing professors whose research dismantles the status quo, blocking black professors from getting full or tenure, hiring people with ZERO skills, the stealing of intellectual property, covering up any evidence of progress if it doesn’t support racist ideology.

The long history of racism begins and ends at the universities. Just the peer-review process alone is
That shyt aint objective. It’s friends on different committees publishing their friends work. You could have the cure for cancer and if you ain’t kissing the right asses, that research will never see the light of day. There’s so much knowledge that never hits the light of day b/c it’s blocked for racist and political reasons.

So many cover ups…just awful.

You're describing a certian political party M.O.

 

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You're describing a certian political party M.O.

Pop culture aligns these issues with the dark side of liberal policies but universities are classically conservative. In fact, in universities they just get away with using liberalism as a label to disguise their facist and hyper conservative racist views so they will be dismissed. Liberalism is a racist conservative dog whistle. It’s a sick game, and liberal arts colleges are only liberal in name only in many cases.