Originally Posted by
lardy
Some people really can't appreciate that not everyone has a similar experience in life or sees things through a different lens.
A good example is to think of job interviews. Two people are the leading candidates, both as strong as each other and both give great interviews. One is white, and one is black. The interview team are white. They are more likely to side with the white candidate (much more likely) NOT because they are racist, but because humans are tribal and are drawn towards others similar to them. They will find ways, subconsciously, to justify it.
This is very common and one of the solutions is quotas, which seems to upset many people because they don't understand the reason. An argument you hear against it is 'the job should go to the best person' but anyone who's ever done recruitment will know that there's normally not one miles ahead stand out person.
With a mainly white recruiting team, a white person will normally win the 50-50 calls. So a black person has to be much better than the white person to get the job. That doesn't seem fair, does it?
(all this is interchangable by the way. It could be a white person in China or Botswana who struggles. These kind of barriers exist all over the place, it's human nature)
I always see people on here saying racism is not really a problem any more, because black kids don't get called all sorts of names at school, or black families don't get 'GO HOME' graffitied on their house. But it definitely still exists and it's quite sad that so many don't want to listen about what it's really like to be in a minority.