I think you are missing the point.
The more we focus on skin color in any way, the more we promote racial and ethnic identity politics. Racial and ethnic identity politics leads to racism and bigotry. Under such a system most people realize society loses.
Those who believe that racism can be a tool to achieve diveristy, inclusion, and equity in our society are wrong. It sounds good, but it has never worked in history. Identity groups don't peacefully decide on how to share power, we have enough of a problem trying to get political parties to share power.
Any short-term gains that may come with intentional systemic racism no matter how that power is wielded will come with long term consequences. The term "white privilege" rings hollow to many whites, who feel discriminated against. I am sure blacks experience the same anger as you expressed about being discriminated against. And you are right to suggest that blacks have been victims of discrimination for centuries, but that doesn't solve the problem, instead it almost seems to be raised to justify "payback". Revenge no matter how good it might feel, doesn't work.
We are not a fully integrated society, but that has to be our goal. The fact that you felt discriminated against, may be true, but the statistics suggest that at a society level, it is not true.
That is big, we will never fix racism at the individual level, but we have accomplished a great deal at the societal level. For example, blacks with college degrees have lower unemployment rates than whites after adjusting for non-racial variables. Equally worth noting is that "race" pay gap after adjusting for non-racial variables put whites 1% higher than blacks and 2% behind Asians (the latter suggests that race might not explain even the 1-2% racial pay gap, but rather in the study including over 1.2 million people, the database did not capture the variable that might explain the default difference in the pay gap other than skin color).
Black, white, Asian, Hispanic, and Native American activists who promote separatism are creating more problems than they are solving. They may find people among their race that embrace their message, but the majority of Americans are rejecting it. Perhaps that explains why "mixed race" is the fastest growing demographic group in America.
I think of them as the "New Americans".
When you look across Hispanic countries, you can see the future of America. As one professor studying the changing demographics of America said we are rapidly transforming America into a Hispanic country (many races blended that share a common culture), the main difference is the future American will have more Asian, European and African genes in the "blend" and less Native American, than Hispanics from south of the US border.
I am sorry you did not get the job you wanted, but I am sure if you keep trying to you will find a great job.
As someone who ran a company with 42,000 employees and a management disproportionately minority and female (health care does not attract as many white males as other professions), the ability to manage people across multiple cultures and ethnicities/races has been a core skill companies are looking for in health care, but I think the same is true across most corporations. Separatists need not apply, white, black or any other group and expect a future in management.
If you met a racist, you met a racist, that does not make all whites racists. Nor is society as a whole racist, so declaring society a racist. In fact, most people would prefer to be thought of as Americans... no white American, Asian Americans, black Americans, etc.
I won't call you ignorant as you did me. You have reasons for how you feel. But not every black person agrees with you, which suggests that your "reasons" are not universal, nor are your experiences.
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/new-census-data-shows-the-nation-is-diversifying-even-faster-than-predicted/
