racism is alive and well

Sadly in our world today this is still happening. It sounds to me that he could be discriminating, and perhaps his opinion was based on what he thought of you. This is wrong and also if he stated it this way, he was very unprofessional. Who says things like this is businesses. All he to do was ask once and wait on the prints. Maybe he wanted to save on the finger print costs and thought he could brighten you into perhaps telling him otherwise. Still very, very unprofessional to say the least. I have not had any direct experiences as you but do know it continues to happen, even though we have laws that are suppose to protect of this type of bad activity.

Online and personally, I have experienced it. At first I would try to fight back by responding with another racist comment, but now I know better. I try to act the adult one, or just the better person. Things like this will remain and will be abundant, but it will be the rare ones that will stand out, those that can see and live all through this without getting as much involved.

I do not know why unless there is someone who looks like you who is a criminal. I can understand about racial profiling if there are more people of your ethnic background who are criminals. But up here in Canada we do have rather mixed neighbourhoods so there is little chance of racism here. I can understand, however, how it can happen when some races are more athletic, are better looking, better singers (according to them) etc. I think in your case you have someone who looks like you who is a bad guy. So it might be mistaken identify.

Okay, my input probably won't count for much considering I can't even get an interview..But in my opinion, that guy was rude..

Many times. I'm Asian so many people have said "chingchongchang" to me. Or 'chong chong chong". I want to say to them.. at least say it right! But I just ignore them and pity them. But I've never had an experience like that from the workforce because usually all the places I worked for were managers of minority races. I want to say you don't need to work at no place like that but in this economy, it must suck, since we may not have a choice. Good luck.

You got to ignore those things. The more you care about, the more you will be affected. I experienced racism, simply because I wore glasses and I looked like a nerd at school. The didn't choose me for anything. And some guys kept hitting me. Some people say things that they don't care if it hurts someone. They think that they're better, but they aren't for so many reasons. And that is one of them. Just ignore and try to move on. You just gotta try to be a better person than they are. :)

I think that the interviewer was very rude to you and he should be ignored. His snide comment seemed to hurt your feelings and you didn't deserve that. I don't like it when the same question is asked a number of times over and over again. I had that from an American Immigration Officer: "Are you going to work in America"? My answer was "no" each time and I had a working holiday visa for Australia. I like all different races and respect all of them. I wish you better experiences at other job interviews.

hi chelsit well yess In a way . when I was younger and myhusband was dissbled I went to work out of a nurse's registery. At this hospital I was paired with a lovely negro nurse Heldaa. the monemt they left her to guide me on what we needed to do next she looked at me and said in a sneer"look here whitey just cause you from some fancye nurses registry dont think you am better than me, hear that whitey?" I was shocked but I said" Helda I would never think I was better than you or any one else. I am new here so show me around.: She was barely civil to me and when I got the hang of what all we needed to do she disappeared and i was on my own as an aide. I had two huge patients I needed to turn and pull up in bed so I had to turn to the head nurse as Helda had disappeared. the charge nurse said she was a pain to work with because she kept imagining people were putting her down when they were not.I have never been racist but that woman sure got to me and I had never done a thing to her

First, that was out of line for that employer to ask you that three times, or even say those offensive words to you. You can report him to the corporate by writing a simple unhappy, certified letter. Second, unfortunately racism and discrimination are everywhere still. I think a lot of it has to do with rub it in your face and unequal treatment. There are some who wonder why we have many special programs for African Americans, The Negro College Fund, the NAACP, Black History Month, and more, but don't have specialities for other races. I've asked some friends of mine, all African Americans, why this was so, and what they thought of it. Surprisingly, despite the fact those programs are there to help, they all found them to be needless and felt it treated them differently. All they wanted was to be treated the same as any one else. Not too much to ask for. Regarding myself, I faced discrimination whenever I tried to apply at West. West claims it's an equal opportunity employer, but unless you're a certain race, you cannot get in easily if you have not worked six months full time employment. Or if you have special friends. Truly, racism and discrimation bother me. Just as it does when people (any race mind you) play the race card. Our colors do not hold a meaning over our behaviors. It is our actions that do. And our upbringing and the environment in which we live and play can influence us to respond either negatively or positively to someone. To me, racism and racial profiling, and discrimination is no different than bullying. And bullying someone is just asserting control over someone that is weaker. And based on that, it makes the bully the weakest of all. So therefore, that rude employer is a racist bully.

Omg this is not a responce to answer insted i was wondering how could you even endure this if i was you i will leave imediately ni matter what kind of job they offer but that's just my thinkin!