This too shall past... or will it?

People will just say any old thing to you... but only if you let them. 

Can you believe when I was in job training a middle aged white man told me to tell my trainer to stop "slave running" because she had us working constantly because like I said in an older post, we had an unusually compacted training. Now of course I didn't tell her that being (1) I didn't think she was being too hard on us (2) It took me a while to figure out what he really meant and if he said it because i was one of the three black trainees And (3) the most important... it was unnecessarily racist and made me a little uncomfortable. 

Well funny be it that he came in our training room shortly after just to ask the trainer if I told her what he said. Now I'm usually not one to immediately pull out my racist ruler but at the same time, I am very pro black and he may have just earned an inch or two and pissed me off. This wave of heat just took over me and made me very upset which made the trainer uncomfortable because regardless of the original intention, the trainer was very aware of such a racial term and this man's oblivious stupidity. 

The next week a young white lady was looking a little lost as she walked down the isle towards my cubicle with a few papers in hand. When I gave her eye contact she slowed down and said "I don't know which one of you... (she chuckles) I don't know who is who." Wait what was that? You don't know how to assess this situation because you are supposed to be dropping off a fax to a person named Marquetta so you head to the cubicles of one of the three new black girls right. Well I'm sorry my mother named myself and someone named the black girl next to me with uni-race names so we don't quite fit your quota of ghetto name guess for the day. 

When will the stupidity pass on some people or it is too late to change something so common? 

Comments

Don said…
I don't think it will pass. I learned (the hard way) that people will be what they are. And even when they change, they're not too far from the person they changed from. I think ignoring people works better for me.

damn @ slave running
March 24, 2008 at 9:50 AM
Tyno92 said…
Welcome to reality. Being an A--Hole is a choose career. My motto is "people are people, those you like take them and those you don't leave them".
March 26, 2008 at 6:13 PM
Lisa said…
I am so behind at reading your blogs but I'm catching up....I know the area where you work, and I am not at all surprised by the actions of your fellow employees. Keep being the bigger person and don't get "ghetto" on them!
April 13, 2008 at 6:47 PM
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