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US firm apologises for seeking 'preferably Caucasian' candidate

Helix said:
i grew up in a former sundown town. i can tell you first hand that there's a ****load of racism lurking under the surface. it's definitely not some inconsequentially small amount, either.
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Sorry, but that response also does not come even close to being data establishing the number/percentage or Americans who ARE "racist".

Strike 3.
 
TU Curmudgeon said:
Sorry, but that response also does not come even close to being data establishing the number/percentage or Americans who ARE "racist".

Strike 3.
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thanks for sharing your opinion.
 
TU Curmudgeon said:
Possibly where you went to school, but you do know that there are different styles of orthographics, don't you?

PS - I noticed that there is something wrong with your software because it inexplicably deleted your answer to my question "Exactly how would the term "African-American" apply to someone who was born to "White" parents in the former Union of South Africa, left there with their parents when they were 1 day old, and has lived in the United States of America (and has acquired American citizenship) ever since?", would you like to re-post it?
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That person's ancestry is not Africa.
 
ecofarm said:
That person's ancestry is not Africa.
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Really? The person was born in Africa and their parents were born in Africa, and for all you know their Grandparents and Great Grandparents were born in Africa.

Now if what you are saying is that a person's parents, Grandparents, and Great Grandparents have to be born in Africa in order for them to be considered "African" enough to be classified as "African-American", then I won't disagree with you, but I will ask you to try and figure out how many people in the United States of America are REALLY "African-American" using those criteria.

Why not simply admit that "African-American" is merely the polite way of saying "Black", and that "Black" is merely the polite way of saying "N***er"?
 
TU Curmudgeon said:
Did you know that "****load" is NOT a number?

Second batter up - Strike 1.
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Go tacitly defend racism to someone who cares what you think. Peace.
 
TU Curmudgeon said:
Really? The person was born in Africa and their parents were born in Africa, and for all you know their Grandparents and Great Grandparents were born in Africa.
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They weren't.
 
ecofarm said:
They weren't.
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How do you know that? Did you know that the first "White" settlers arrived in South Africa on 6th April 1652. That's 377 years ago. Did you know that if you use 28.72 years as the length of a generation, there could have been 13.126 generations of all "White" South African born persons involved in that genealogy of a person who immigrated to the United States of America and then took out American citizenship?

How many generations of fore-bearers do YOU believe have to have lived on a continent before they can be considered to have come from that continent? Would it be 14.519? Or would it be longer? NOTE - If it is more than 14.519 generations then there aren't very many "Americans" who can legitimately call themselves anything other than "Europeans" or "Asians" or "Africans" or "Australians" or "South Americans".

Or are you simply attempting to ignore the fact that "African-American" is the polite way of avoiding saying "Black" and that "Black" is the polite way of avoiding saying "N***er"?
 
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TU Curmudgeon said:
Still not a number.

Second Batter - Strike 2.
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Who knew the two of us were such "tacit defenders of racists."

We seem pretty reasonable to me...

Go figure!
 
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