[Hoot Gibson]

You are exactly right. I am a white man in the United States. I know nothing about privilege , because I have it. Just like you, I struggle with understanding why different races and genders don't... just do it!
Here is where we differ; I stop and say to myself, "maybe they didn't have the same advantages you do." I can't do a lot after that besides vote the right way, show empathy and encouragement, and call out folks who ignore the obvious.

That is awesome. At your work don't see color, and have respect for the people in the office; however, that is a very micro-situation. Reminds me of the folks I grew up with in my small town. They loved the minorities we had in our school, but when you saw a minority they didn't know it was a different story.

Shouldn't we be asking why are we hiring skilled immigrants and not more minority Americans?

The biggest barrier to black Americans is not American liberals pushing govt help for black Americans. :hilarious:

Anyway, this government created the issue allowing racist oppressive practices, why shouldn't they search ways to fix it?

Let's not pretend those practices have ended. Trump just tweeted and spoke last week about keeping "low-income" housing out of the suburbs. We all knew what he meant there.

We hire LEGAL immigrants with technical skills because liberal teacher unions have nearly destroyed our public education system. American schools no longer produce a sufficient number of graduates who are capable of performing technical jobs for modern American companies.

What I notice about your post is the absence of any attempt to explain how legal immigrants with limited English skills, including many black African immigrants are able to not only survive in technical positions but thrive in those jobs, while proportionally few black Americans fill those jobs. Young black Americans are constantly fed the message by white liberals like you that our system is stacked against them to prevent them from succeeding. That message falls on deaf ears when it is directed at black African immigrants because they know what real oppression is and fled it by coming to our country.

Everybody knows that racism exists in this country. One of the many differences between you and me is that I recognize that racism is not so widespread that people cannot excel in our society despite its existence. The number of very successful people of all races and ethnicities is living proof of that fact.