A breakthrough? The Game.

For as long as i can remember, there has always been an undertone in meetings. Where I work its a game. It's Rudyard Kipling's 'burden' in its last existing form. The game is the free association of what is thought of the black male.

He is thought to be uneducated, animalistic, violent, wild, rapacious, sexually violent, a challenge to the status quo, he is the burden's greatest challenge. Black propaganda, will tell you he is inferior. He is not real, he is a novelty chocolate man.

He is an animal, childlike, he is a monkey, an underdeveloped human, a monkey eats bananas, is messy and uncoordinated.

My response - "I never saw a wild thing feel sorry for itself - and that notion saddens me."

In the meeting you must be 'Jumped In'. That is a metaphorical dominance must be sworn in by reference to the inferiority of the black man. This is then echoed by the response from the group in the form of a 'cough' or other non verbal audible response, such as a sniff or tap.

The only ground you have in that situation is the moral high ground.

I inadvertently made my first rebuttal today.

Someone, said that a supplier of security services was representing itself by the distribution of chocolate ans coasters as a merchandising exercise. How perverse that was.

His reading being that representative of the police family and could be black was perverse.

I when taking about the main message of our communication plan said "The main consumer message, is, 'See what the criminal justice system can do to you , sorry for you." I looked at him and apologised to him directly.

I inferred that the system had created his view, created the current perception of me in that room and made him act in that way against me, and that he should go back to how he was before.

It was be accident, it made the point. I made my first rebuttal indicating ethical preference.