Why do SOME White people get intimidated by people of color?

Question

When a person of color is at a higher position on the job and is making more money, why do SOME Whites (NOT ALL OF THEM) get intimidated? They have the same opportunities that we have to get to that same point but instead some of them (NOT ALL) seem to get displaced when they have to answer to me on the job. It's not fair and it's not right.

* This is not at all a racist comment like some of you will take it. I excluded the ones that don't act that way at all. Thanks.

Answer 1

Years ago when I was in nursing school, my instructor and the head of the nursing dept were black women. They were wonderful. I owe my nursing career to them and I've made it clear to them that I feel that way. But now years later and with more exposure to the black population, I would not feel that way now. Many blacks are not shy about their attitude that whites "owe" them. They are not shy about their feelings that they should get even and gain supremacy. Just like you, I know it's not all blacks. But with my own eyes and ears I hear black nurses purposely trying to oust the white nursing students for no reason at all than because they are white. The thought process is "they'd do it to us" "they've been doing it to us" "it's payback time" "payback is a b*itch" and so on. They don't realize, or maybe they do, that they are the racist ones continuing the cycle of hate. It will be these white nursing students and other white nursing employees that are being poisonsed by the blacks and eventually be in a situation such as yours. BTW I take it you've been promoted. Congratulations. I hope society has not poisoned you as well. Do well.

Answer 2

It may not be a case of white/black and then again it may. It happens in all situations. It could be a man being intimidated by a female supervisor. It could be that the supervisor has an arrogance or acting as if he or she is superior that causes the person to feel intimidated. Ignorance and arrogance isn't limited to one race or sex, it depends on the individual person.

Life will never be 100% fair or right, but at least we are in a country where we have the opportunity to excel and advance if we choose to or the right to be a slacker no matter what sex or color we are.

Good luck!

Answer 3

The way there where raised.
Example: my granmother had problems once with people that atacked her. Coincidently they were black (they could have been white or hispanic, but in this case they were black). Therefore she assumed all black people are like that and became razist.

Everytime i went overthere I was put under that influence. Until I Grew up and found out for my self that black people were just as nice as me, or just as nasty as I could be.

Therefore I think that what you see at home is what you learn.

Or, In my jobs case, they feel intimidated because they know that people that grow up being pressured and judged because of their color have grown up to be stronger people. They will loose their job to the black guy who has every desire of proving to everyone what he can do.

This happens in my case. Im hispanic. No white guy wants to loose their job to a puertorican.

Third reason and the most important: They don't read the bible and let Jehovah guide them.

Thats my opinion
Rick

Answer 4

Not at all a racist question, just a question about race relations. Here is the way I see it. There are still bigoted white people out there and you know it. You also, however, have to admit that there are a lot of "people of color" out there who seem to have an axe to grind over the past. When you first meet a person of another race it is very natural to be wary because there is a very real possibility that you should be.

As a side note, I hate that term "people of color" .. I am a person of color too .. I am light beige in fact. Someday, perhaps, when we are no longer bigoted, we can all just be people.

Answer 5

Some white folk are so intimidated by the PC crowd & they're just scared of saying anything, to someone with a different skin color, in case it's interpreted as racist.

Answer 6

That is a good question, I can only add that perhaps it is because in present society it is not the norm.

Albeit, it depends on your community in which you live. It is, I believe far more excepted in Canada (where I reside) than in the US. Some feelings, experiences, views (negative and racial) are handed from generation to generation, until those disappear and people are treated based on equality will we not have those who may be intimidated. And when that happens, this will be a better place to live. It is too bad this question has to be asked.

Cheers.

Answer 7

i can only speak for myself, but i dont get intimidated by anyone
or anything. i was fortunet enought to have afterschool jobs and
live in certain neighborhoods with mostly minoity people living there and I can have the same conversation with them as I do
with a white person. Im also pretty proud of that b/c ive noticed
some people aren't like that.

Answer 8

Wow I have never run into that. I guess all the places I have worked appreciated th efforts and capabilities of everyone there. Some people I would think have the same issue you say, but with women.

And some people or all races are inept at their jobs and need an excuse for their own poor performance.

Answer 9

I've never come accross any white people that feel intimidated when they have to answer to a black person. Maybe it's b/c you're a woman.

Answer 10

I am white.

I remember reading a poem once. It was this:

WHEN I WAS BORN I WAS BLACK.
WHEN I AM ILL I AM BLACK.
WHEN I AM HOT I AM BLACK.
WHEN I AM COLD I AM BLACK.
WHEN I DIE I AM BLACK

WHEN YOU WERE BORN YOU WERE PINK.
WHEN YOU ARE ILL YOU ARE GREEN.
WHEN YOU ARE HOT YOU ARE RED.
WHEN YOU ARE COLD YOU ARE BLUE.
WHEN YOU DIE YOU ARE GREY.

BUT STILL YOU'VE GOT THE CHEEK TO CALL ME COLOURED! - Author unknown.

I know you are not making a racist comment.
Racism is alive today, regardless of whether people accept the fact or not. Those who have issue with other races having more authority than them, are simply using the issue of race to justify to themselves their own feelings of inadequacy, I feel. Most cannot see that within themselves, though.