as in in your face racist white folk that make no bones about showing you they don't appreciate your kind?
Just curious.
I've been irked since Tuesday about the level of ignorance and racism that is blatent in my office environment. Here's what's bugging me this week.
We have these huge Plasma screen televisions hanging on stands all around my office. Two for each section of the office. They stay parked on the financial news stations and run current financial market prices and other pertinent financial news constantly.
Anyway on Inaugeration day a black woman in my office decided she was going to turn the channels on all the TV's on our side to Obama's inaugeration and set up a chair parked right in front of the TV so she could watch. She also placed a chair there for me to sit and watch as well. So at 11:45 this is where the TV was channeled and that is where she was sitting. I was still at my desk doing work. When I got up at 11:50 to go stand nearby to see at what point they were in the Inaugeration programming, I noticed that every single office and every single cubicle where white co-workers would normally be sitting doing their work was empty and the office was quiet as a mouse
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I then went to check each desk and office on the floor to make sure I was right about what I thought I was seeing.
Sure enough every single office and desk that a white person sat behind was empty.
I said well I'll be... could it be that all the white folk had all left the office... dissappeared... vamoosed on purpose!!!
So I came back over to my co-worker (the black woman) and said where'd everyone go? She said I don't know... I gave her a look and she sheepishly smiled at me as if she understood WHY I was giving her the look.
I then said, if McCain or some other white person was doing something important today like getting sworn in and celebrated they'd be all bugg eyed standing around the television screen like goons with their eyes pasted to the screen... and demonstrated how they look with their necks craned and their eyes bugged waiting with baited breath for whoever they want to see or hear to come on the screen. This made her fall out laughing, but I wasn't finding it funny at all.
I continued my rant about how today when a black man is about to get sworn in for the most important office in the country they all of the sudden dissappear and have things to do outside of the office.
. She laughed somemore... I stayed pissed off about it.
It get's better. The minute after Obama was sworn in all of the sudden they (all the white co-workers) all return almost like clock work back to their desks/offices, and not one of them even paused for a minute to look at the continuing inaugeration ceremonies. Didn't care one iota about Obama, the speech, or the occassion. They all had on coats which means they had left the office to go outside. Some were carrying bags of lunch which means that lunch, (an early lunch mind you) was more important then seeing the first African American President get sworn in and viewing the festivities surrounding that.
I said to myself man... it may have taken the collective white vote to get Obama into the white house, but these sorry mofo's around here certainly didn't cast their vote for him... that's for sure.
I put this on the level of a WALKOUT. They collectively banned together and decided that they would all leave the office and purposely miss the inaugeration of Obama. What else could it be?
I have other stories like this, but anyone else care to share their experience working with REALLY racist white folk? I'm more than a little interested to hear what you have to say.
