Dumped because of gender and race

I can see how that happened. Doubt the big boss wanted the reason spread.

Sorry about your situation, Mr. Cagney. That sucks.

 

If I have a freelancer who is no good. I tell them they're no good and need to improve.
Playing the "diversity card" is a dangerous game.

 

But as long as the people looking for the opportunity have been in the business less than 40 years, you are theoretically punishing people for something they personally had no control over. Not really fair to punish someone for the actions of their forebearers.

(On the other hand, in the real world, opportunities will always remain unequal one way or another.)

 

For those whose families arrived in US post-slavery and have had no hiring/firing power in the years since, you risk punishing them for the actions of somebody else's ancestors. Thought it was wrong to right wrongs with more wrongs.

 

As stated previously, I'd feel exactly the same way, that it's unfair. But I like to think I'd still be able to acknowledge belonging to the "advantaged" group, even as my "advantage" was being used against me.

I feel for the families who arrived post-slavery, had no hiring/firing power throughout Reconstruction, Jim Crow and the pre-Civil Rights Era, and never did anything to hurt, harm or hinder black folks. Though being on the right side of the color line inarguably helped such families more often than not, that doesn't mean they endorsed or condoned disparate treatment.

It's like they're caught up in guilt-by-association.

And you don't have to tell me how totally unfair that is.

 

Finding a believable anecdote comes immediately to mind.

 

Why so cynical? I can assure you this is a real-life situation. Let's hope you don't experience it from my end some day.

 

The world is what it is. We middle-class white honkies got to skate into jobs for decades or centuries on end; if the shoe is finally on the other foot, tough shit for us. Suck it up and deal with it.

 

Well, if you are Boots, this phrase is freighted with more double-boomerang tragicomic slapstick than even F_B might reasonably bear.

If not, then not.

Continue.

 

If only you knew how small you appear to mention me in your silly post.

 

Well, perhaps I'm just a small, silly man, boots.

We can't all call down the ethical, moral or professional thunder that the author of a 50-page internet manifesto on fictional backdoor lovin' can.

 

PWNED!