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In reply to the discussion: Two Black Women Walk Into The Grocery Store . . . [View all]noiretextatique
(27,275 posts)She was an incompetent white female who claimed a competent black female professor was hired and promoted because she had "the right skin color." I challenged her about the comment, but no one else did. Of course, I was the only black person in the class. A few students talked to me after the class, but none of them said a word IN the class. I told them IF they thought the comment was racist and inappropriate...WHY didn't they SAY anything? I told them by not speaking up, they enabled her claim that my reaction was "personal." True...I could not stand her incompetent ass, but it was not personal...what she said was not only incorrect, but racist as well. And sure enough...the incident was viewed as a problem with myself and the professor, not as a professor making a stupid, racist comment during a class. She counted on their silence because she knew she could use the 'weak white woman' card and no one would challenge her...except me. Like it was MY JOB. Silence is complicity.