White Men Rule

[el_bryanto]

12. That is part of white privilege though

People hire people they can empathize with. White Males, who do most of the hiring in our society, may not empathize with people of different skin colors, but it's just as likely they don't empathize with people who send off the wrong kind of signals. Those subconcious signals, some verbal and some non-verbal, that tell an interviewer "I'm like you. I'll be a good fit."

White Male privilege is the simple truth that what we think of as professional, what we think of as classy, what we think of as appropriate office behavior is defined by, as you note, privileged white males. Obviously a poor white is not necessarily going to know how to send off those signals or not be able to, but they have a little bit of a leg up on a poor Black person in that they at least look like the person interviewing them.

Bryant