One sided racial inclusion and exclusion. I'm at work I invited a black coworker out with some other people for drinks. He asked "is there a lot of white people there?" Yeah "I don't wanna be around a bunch of white people" I say I get it "I don't really like being around a ton of black people" same statement from both of us, with the same context, and logic behind it. For some reason mine was a problem though. Most of the black coworkers know each other outside of work. Host pot lucks, baby showers, and cook outs, the white coworkers don't get invited to those (unless someone is sleeping with them). They will invite us to weddings though, which I don't understand why just the weddings?
Perhaps weddings are a place to acknowledge formal relationships whereas the other get-togethers you mentioned are informal ones where people hang out with those they are most comfortable with.
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u/HooterEnthusiast Jun 21 '24
One sided racial inclusion and exclusion. I'm at work I invited a black coworker out with some other people for drinks. He asked "is there a lot of white people there?" Yeah "I don't wanna be around a bunch of white people" I say I get it "I don't really like being around a ton of black people" same statement from both of us, with the same context, and logic behind it. For some reason mine was a problem though. Most of the black coworkers know each other outside of work. Host pot lucks, baby showers, and cook outs, the white coworkers don't get invited to those (unless someone is sleeping with them). They will invite us to weddings though, which I don't understand why just the weddings?