Sigh...
Resumes with "black sounding" names are less likely to be receive a job offer than resumes with "white sounding" names.
Let's start there.
Dig deeper into the resumes and you would find that certain universities pop off the page more than your corner Community College...
That a single guy would be great for the job as opposed to a married woman, regardless of the color of their skin...
Sometimes that job just isn't the job for you. Sometimes you wouldn't even want to see yourself working for a company that would base their recruitment off of petty criteria in the first place.
And sometimes life just isn't fair.
That example is not oppression. It's life. some black people have really black sounding names, some do not. I know that it's just one of several hundred examples that could be brought up, but no one has ever been guaranteed some kind of Utopia where life is fair. I know that the most Ardent liberals in America dream of this Utopia, so I don't want to go so far as to crush the idea of it, I'm just letting you know that the absence of Utopia does not mean that we find ourselves all under oppression.
There is a part of me that wishes that well growing up that all of us had to spend at least one year or maybe two, maybe even longer than that, in the wilderness. Surviving. Eating from the land, drinking from the land, not certain of tomorrow, not certain of anything. As likely to be eaten as you are to eat... the real world, where words like Fair or not even apart of the imagination.
(and don't take that last part as made completely dismissing any kind of actual oppression that does go on, be it racial or not. I'm just saying, God damn... this could all go away tomorrow. You can try to squash dog eat dog but dog will eat dog if the refrigerator is ever go out. Dog will eat dog.)
Goodnight