I'm a white person who grew up with significant disadvantages, however if I were black...

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107. It is there and it is a scourge that any person running a company that wants the company

to continue to prosper in a changing world must confront head on. There is no way to sugar coat it, people who discriminate must be found and removed from companies, else those companies slowly, but surely will die. I am willing to bet my fortune that if you looked at ANY under performing company and many that perform ok, under the surface you would find racism and sexism that if eliminated would make those companies perform almost infinitely better, to the point where they would be lethal competitors to have arrayed competitively against any company you are associated with.

Even on a Liberal site like DU people have trouble admitting that racism exists in the workplace. Most will acknowledge that sexism exists. When faced with a person that one likes being actively involved in denying deserving people employment and salary rights, the initial tendency is to recoil or disbelieve. But those reactions are just what the person guilty of discrimination wants to happen. The rightfully angry minority person, man or woman calling him or her a racist or sexist is not what is feared, those people can be effectively marginalized by the discriminator pulling internal strings. The thing that a discriminator fears is that every string that is pulled will become subject to exhausting analysis, with the end result of that analysis being finding out the truth.