Luke Visconti’s Ask the White Guy column is a top draw on Fair360.com. Visconti, the founder and CEO of Fair360, formerly DiversityInc, is a nationally recognized leader in diversity management. In his popular column, readers who ask Visconti tough questions about race/culture, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability and age can expect smart, direct and disarmingly frank answers.
Question:
From the fly-on-the-wall perspective … What is it that no black man knows, and no white man will tell
Answer:
It’s revealing to say that there is nothing that the white man knows and won’t tell.
White men are like a cloud. “We” look like we have substance and cohesion, but it’s really wispy and insubstantial. “Race” is a matter of happenstance, and when you’re the majority, that happenstance looks like nothing. When you’re not the majority, it looks like a conspiracy. At the end of it all, white people are like anyone else; we’ll turn against each other just as easily as turn against another group.
