Ken NJ said this in post #11 : Keep it up folks, this thread exemplifies the mindset of America. Let's get it out on the table. We can all say it openly.
Ken NJ the world is tough and perception is everything. If you have the credentials you claim you have then you should know this. There is no biased "mindset" of how Omarosa behaved on the show. People here are simply responding to Omarosa's own actions. The sad thing for Omarosa is that we the viewing audience was only shown part of how she behaved. I would hate to learn how she behaved behind the scenes off camara though I have pretty good idea.
People here are still insisting that Omarosa was a strategic plant put on the show. That is simply hogwash. If the producers did that the confidence level in the show would become so low for this kind of show that no one would watch it again.
If you ever had the opportunity to work with an Omarosa type you would be grinding your teeth. Trust me that type of person is no fun and can be extremely disruptive to the common day work flow. It gives a new high to the coined phrase of high maintenance.
The key is being able to get along with almost everyone and getting the work done in a competent and timely manner. Perception comes from all directions: lateral, below and from above where communication and sensitivity are key components of successful interpersonal relationships with other office workers.
Of couse people will be skeptical at first, but as good communication skills are shared by EVERYONE, then the misunderstandings are minimized and better working relationships overshadow previous fears and frenzy. Instead of pointing fingers at others, people who have to work day to day should have more frequent and effective communication as to what and when to expect work and how and what will be completed by what date as well as the job specifications. When people work in team settings and either everyone succeeds or everyone fails, everyone particpates and have ownership interests.
This board seems to point more than the proportional share to Omarosa as to failures than as to the credits and successes distributed to the others. Yes, I've been sent into offices with active warfares and have been shot at a couple of times. As long as people are willing to openly confront these issues, they won't disappear. But as dialogues take place, solutions follow because both sides want to continue working and producing completed work. The point: Both need each other to succeed or each will fail on their own.
As the person who started this thread I am genuinely shocked at some of the responses. I feel I should say something at this point because I don't want to appear as if I'm promoting ignorance and bigotry. I'll start by saying yet again that I myself am a black woman.
Let me set the record straight. Omarosa did some terrible things and appears to be a very unpleasant person to work with. I think she should be held accountable. But this IS NOT about race. This is about a person who behaved badly. Many black people like myself have been the victims of racism and racial slurs. Omarosa's behavior makes us all look as if we are lying...as if we're all making it up. Why???? because most people (as many of you have shown) are too ignorant to realize that her behavior is an example of her behavior alone, and is not an example of "all black people".
Isn't it interesting that even with Kwame performing as well as he did, people still want to see Omarosa as "stereotypical" and want to see Kwame as "the exception to the rule"????
When people all are able to reverse those 2 perceptions, to see Kwame as the norm and Omarosa as the exception (because that is the true reality here)...then the world will be free of racism.
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, "What! You too? I thought I was the only one!"
-C.S. Lewis
We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
- Dr, Martin Luther King, Jr.
The closer one gets to the top, the more one finds there is no "top."
-Nancy Barcus
04-25-2004 05:06 AM
