Word: racism
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...staggering $176 million. Accounts of discrimination and harassment at Texaco were widely reported in the media, and a damning tape of top executives sneering at black employees and conspiring to destroy employment records was released to the press. One could interpret this story as evidence that pervasive racism still plagues corporate American, and that herculean efforts are sometimes necessary to shatter the glass ceiling...
...attitude, unfortunately, is typical of much of the white establishment that persists in denying the impact of discrimination by ignoring evidence of racism and by seeking to apologize for it. He seeks to excuse yet another offensive incident at Texaco (a black woman was given a birthday cake featuring crude references to watermelon) by describing it bizarrely as "well meaning but racist...
...each and every day millions of black Americans are unfairly denied employment and promotions, or insulted and intimidated at work. His arguments are not only unconvincing and ill-founded but are also representative of an ideology which seeks to defend the legacy of American apartheid and white supremacy: institutional racism. Instead of acknowledging the effects of racism and seeking to propose solutions, Leo brays about "bad publicity" and "questionable evidence." He fears that companies will "lurch toward a quota system," which may prevent discrimination lawsuits but will undermine meritocracy...
...South as a result of far less serious allegations (such as merely looking at white females or operating a successful business). That is to say nothing (as most Americans would prefer) of 244 years of enslavement, a legalized system of apartheid, and the disease of systematically entrenched racism that thrives to this...
Elsewhere he compares different styles of racism. The U.S., with its predominantly Northern European traditions, erects distinct color barriers even though its population has been paddling in a richly mixed gene pool for more than three centuries. By contrast, Brazil is what Cose calls a "pigmentocracy," where the national myth of racial harmony masks a system in which lighter skins enjoy higher status and rewards...