Also, while surely people of color who are not in the "great guy" category have risen in ranks, there are countless white men who have, and they didn't have to be "great guys" to do so. To say this also implies that if a black person hasn't risen it might be due to them just not being someone their coworkers consider a "great guy" rather than other reasons often at play that have nothing to do with them. (I'm not saying that POC, like any person, can't be unpleasant to work with or not good at their job, I'm saying that white people do not have to work against the issue of their skin and hundreds of years of racism passed down and a system designed to put them at a disadvantage.)
There's a similar seed in the idea that we shouldn't be saying that a black man murdered by police wasn't doing anything "wrong" to make it seem unfair... doing something "suspicious" or even committing a crime does not make you eligible for cold blooded murder by police, just as it doesn't in almost all cases for white people. |
