FCS185 The new girl...

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[Rognik]

"Hello, I'm One-Dimensional. And you are...?"

Actually, I don't know if she's stunned at her racism, or he's just staring at her breasts this whole time.

[Wolf]

This is most intresting. And Awkward...

["J"]

J must live in LA...

[Eve]

I am completely with Rognik right now. Where is this woman from, I wonder. And are those things real?

[alicai]

maybe J was struck by her beauty and ignorace at the same time?

[CyberSkull]

Triple slap of ignorance & beauty?

[ddd]

Years ago something similar happened to me.
I was "the first", she said.
The first black person in that company she ever saw working in IT behind a desk and not pushing a broom.

There is so much that so many of you do not understand.

[Rognik]

I'll admit this sort of thing is said, but it's usually the ignorant majority who says them (as demonstrated in the early strips of Americans always being tall, usually white). It seems more unusual for a black woman to come along and say "Thank goodness I'm not the only one." Then again, I haven't met many people outside my culture bracket, so maybe I'm just a bit sheltered.

[Angel H.]

Thank you, ddd!

When ya'll are the only minorities in the building (or within a 5 mile radius, for that matter) then you can talk about her "racism".

[Jd]

I guess I have a different perspective. All I know about this situation is what's shown here. If this happened to me, as a minority, I would not have thought the other person was being racist. I'd take their comment as: "Thank god! There's another one like me here."

That's my opinion, based on my experiences. ;) Where I am, being a minority means your frequently treated like a tourist attraction.

[alicia]

Yes Cyberskull but more like double slap than triple. Why you said triple?

[Naeem]

I've had people stop in halls and track me down after they saw that I was another black person not pushing a broom. Anyone who thinks this is racist is really unaware of the realities of corporate culture.

[Cavalierdesignworks]

This is an excellent depiction of reality. A reality only some of us will truly understand.