I am sick and tired of people constantly bringing race into arguments that have nothing to do with it. Have people ever stopped to think that maybe someone dislikes them because of who they are, and not because they are black/white/red/yellow/tan/brown??? I recently had a young man try to get me fired because I wouldn't give him a refill on his drink. He claimed it was because he was black and I was being racist, but really it's because we don't offer free refills on the size of drink he bought. Why are people ridiculous like that?
2006-07-09 15:34:08 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Sorry you had to put up with that. I've heard similar stories of customers playing the race card just to get a freebie. I'm a minority myself. Usually if the complaint is too ridiculous, it'll be obvious.
Anyway, keep your friends close, but your enemies closer. In other words, if you have a diverse team of workmates, there is bound to be someone who can take your side on the matter.
Like I said, I'm a minority myself. On the other hand, to extend on what you mentioned in your post: As a minority, it goes both ways. I mean, when someone doesn't like me I wonder if it is because of a predetermined dislike for me, because of a prior experience with someone else who is the same race. On the other hand, when someone is nice to me and talks to me, I wonder if they aren't just another travel-freak that is obsessed with my race and has just included me in the mix. I mean, I would love to earn both my own hate and my own admiration. For these very reasons I get mad at my own race for "overstepping" me, as it seems. There is no reason why my own race ought to benefit from my own "bubbly personality" or hard work, and definitely no reason I ought to suffer any consequence as a result of their obnoxiousness in public, what they eat all the time (that I never eat), and how arrogant they tend to be. So, it can go positively and negatively.
2006-07-09 15:38:43 · answer #1 · answered by perfectlybaked 7 · 6⤊ 2⤋
Greetings Smart Person - I have been in the work force for 24 years - what you just spoke about happened to me when I worked my first job.
When someone accuses you of being racist - it is because they are racist. I have been around these same people you mentioned for most of those 24 years. The first word out of their mouth is "Racist" when things don't go their way.
My suggestion to you: Stay in school - go to and graduate from college. This is the only way you will be ably to get away from these people. They are the laziest most dirty people you can be around - there are exceptions - they are the ones who also want nothing to do with their Bro's and Sizta'a.
Good luck in your future!
2006-07-09 15:47:31 · answer #2 · answered by Gladiator 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Everything is always everyone elses fault people are just getting ridiculous. But it seems at times your damned if you do and damned if you don't. Your not supposed to be racist but yet some are offended if you don't take affirmative action. But hell this even happens with women. Don't treat me like I'm weaker I can do anything you can do but when it is convenient some women fall back on the but I'm a girl.
2006-07-09 15:41:59 · answer #3 · answered by gnomes31 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Alot of people are just ignorant like that. I hear alot of people at work complaining about how they don't get the amount of respect they feel they deserve because of the color of their skin. It gets me so mad,because it's always the ones that don't put in as much work as they say they do. I have to leave the room when conversations and arguments turn into a heated racial discussion, because it makes me uncomfortable. I know just doesn't answer your question, but I wanted to know that I understand what you are talking about, and it bothers me, too.
2006-07-09 15:42:53 · answer #4 · answered by koko kitten 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i know exactly what u mean and i cant stand it. everybody says racism isnt getting any better, but really the people who think they aren't racist who try to get what they think are racists into trouble for being racist, are actually being the racist one and make racism worse. i hope that made sense lol.
2006-07-09 15:38:54 · answer #5 · answered by familyguynnascar 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they don't have any real way of arguing/debating, so they decide to throw race into the conversation to make you out to be the bad guy.
2006-07-09 15:39:47 · answer #6 · answered by Jamps 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because that's the most obvious thing to use
Ex: micheal jackson about the invincible sales calling sony a racist then he went and got al sharpton...but he "bleach"
his skin color called it vinaligo and now you wanna play the race card whatever. : (
2006-07-09 15:40:41 · answer #7 · answered by ~Mmmkay?~ 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Race is the politics of nature. For your own sake, you'd better become a ' politician '.
2006-07-09 15:41:53 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Im pretty sick of it too. Race or color or religion should not matter.We are all people and we all share things in common.
2006-07-09 15:40:41 · answer #9 · answered by metal_drummer_guitar 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because those people don't have any good arguements to defend themselves so they call the person racist.
2006-07-09 15:37:36 · answer #10 · answered by Ryan 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋