I do not believe any of that to be true. Largely because I have been pulled over. I have had my car searched. I have been handcuffed as cops flipped my apartment. I have been followed around stores. Just like almost every other teen in America. Very few people care any more if their boss is black. That has been a problem in the past but most companies, especially large companies have minorities in management or supervisory positions. You are simply wrong on almost all counts.
Ask a black person about DWB. Have you ever done that?
And let's take this at face value: "Very few people care any more if their boss is black." Approximately no one cares if their boss is a white male, because that's the 'standard' if you will. Advantage white male! And that's really the entire point.
no it doesnt. Show me ONE employer who hires based on race in any major corporation in the United States. you may be able to find some family run businesses that all happen to be the same race, largely due to them being family, but i can point out many businesses in almost any city where people of every race do that. .
Again, you're making my point nicely. Of course we all consciously or subconsciously prefer to hire and work closely with those who are like us. And so for lots of reasons, in my area in part centuries of state sanctioned discrimination, most businesses are owned by whites, mostly white males, mostly white male Christians, and so in a competition if it's two people - a white male, and a black female, all things equal, the white male gets the job. Not because of overt racism anymore - I think the vast majority are over that - but just comfort, rapport, ease working with, etc. It's just human nature.
Take a look at the CEOs for Fortune 500 or Fortune 1000. It's getting better - in 2000 there were 3 of 1,000. Now there's a whopping 51 of 1,000. I don't really think that's because there are only 51 qualified women in the country. It's because until 2000, CEO was a job for white males, period. That was it. So you're going to have to do a lot of work to convince anyone that white males don't have the edge. And it's not just CEO - that's just the last of many steps. It's for top management jobs, period. And it's easy to explain. The BOD hires the CEO, and the Board is likely all male, almost all white and they're most comfortable, have the most confidence in people like them, white males. Their style is the same, way of communicating, golf outings, outings to strip joints, hunting weekends, playing softball, etc.
You seem to have this false idea that the majority of Americans are racist. It is simply not true. Most Americans are not racist. That isn't to say there aren't any racists out there, but it is no longer common.
Not at all. But we all have biases, and there is a big gray area where almost all of us fall between "stone cold racist" and "color blind" and it's various levels of preference, comfort, ease, confidence in those like YOU.
FWIW, I'll admit my biases because I live in the South and we have a long history of overt and state supported racism, and it lasted well into MY lifetime, and it just is not at all dead here. If I was talented and black, I'd move, and most do.