NON-WHITE "AMERICA"

"Seeing" What's "Not Seen"

 

My best memories of studying with Peter Drucker include those times when we would argue "race".

I learned from his insights, even though Peter had never been "black" at anytime in his life.  We argued about those things "seen" and those "not-seen".  We often used "gender" to make a point.

 

The eyes are the culprit where race is concerned.  The "eyes and ears" become the culprit when "gender" is the issue.  For example, how many women have experienced situations when they "say" something in a meeting, or to and individual who is male; only to find that what they "said" can only be "heard" when a male (or a "white" male) "say's" it??  Got the point??   All persons of color, regardless of gender, experience this.  It's most severe for non-whites of either (or any) gender.

 

Just about all citizens of the United States refer to ourselves as "Americans" -- and we are.  But we are not THE Americans.  We use the term (even the first Black President) as short-hand for the citizens of the United States.  This habit really reveals our poor educational system (ignorance of geography) and our racism.  When we think a little, we know that everyone, from the poorest Alaskan Native to the poorest citizen of the Falklands, is an American!  This small change in thinking can revolutionize everyone's view of the world, their place in the world, and open tremendous economic possibility.  We might stop our habit of trashing, and thereby wasting, people and their potential.

 

The dichotomy paradox, among Zeno's paradoxes  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno's_paradoxes,
is the key to full understanding of our tendency to cling to practices that prohibit us from reaching our goals, in life, and in business.  Think about it!

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