Are Black Americans Still Painted As Incompetent?

[@StevenHughes-hr5hp]

We did not think much about Donald Trump or Joe Biden either. You do not have to be Black. All politicians are viewed as incompetent.

[@healingrace3491]

Thanks for commenting, @StevenHughes-hr5hp ! We'd love to hear more of your perspective. Is your feeling that Black Americans are not subject to racial stereotypes around competence - above and beyond what other groups have directed at them - or is your view more that it has significantly lessened? What shapes your views one way or the other? Would love to learn more about your thinking!

[@EinsteinKnowedIt]

​@@healingrace3491I'll take thst one. In order to be successful in any endeavor one has to be liked as opposed to tolerated. In short, being black mean you will work 3 times harder. Now, if the job is blue collar with a union and all, then that's okay. At least you don't have to change into Charlton to fit in them office jobs. Charlton goes to work on MLK day. Charlton would never take that day off. In short, Charlton is fine being Charlton. See Tim Scott and Byron Daniel's. They are the reality of Charlton in everyday life. They were extremely successful in every aspect but one. We hate them, but we don't count. They are making money. We are not. Then to be insulted doubly as if joining that party will get us a sex and the city woman is outrageous. It reinforces all sorts of stereotypes for absolutely the wrong reason. So we go to school to enlighten the mind. The objective is really not to turn into a m f'n Charlton.😊

[@healingrace3491]

Thanks for your response@@EinsteinKnowedIt! You mentioned that being black means you need to work 3 times harder. How have you experience that in your life, and what in your experience makes that the case? We'd love to know more about your experience and views!

[@EinsteinKnowedIt]

@healingrace3491 It was a word of mouth rumor spread throughout the work world where college educated blacks had acquired non-unionized shirt-and-tie office jobs in mass for the first time since slavery and the alledged ending of Jim Crow. If you'll remember how hard an alledged lazy slave actually worked in the cotton fields back home, you'd get the picture a little better about this working 3 times harder idea. It could be 6. I don't know. I do know that when layoffs came, you were the very first to go, and that high schooler you trained several years ago and who lives on the opposite side of the tracks is the boss letting you go. Ain't life grand?

[@robertlevy2420]

Why hasn't Obama's 2 term presidency and intellectual heft/rep not popped this bubble/stereotype????

[@healingrace3491]

That's a very interesting question, @robertlevy2420 ! We appreciate you asking it. One thing we've heard shared is that we as humans can often look at singular individuals as exceptions to a rule... especially when we've had associations over time that we are invested in psychologically . But it raises an important question of what does tip the scale when it comes to the stereotypes we harbor. What are your thoughts?

[@robertlevy2420]

@@healingrace3491 Negative stereotypes are much more resistant to counter examples!! Also, people hold on to their view petulantly when a counter example so thoroughly blows the original view so thoroughly out of the water!!!!!