In my first teaching job there came a time when problems started to arise among some of the students. During a faculty and staff meeting about the issue, a white staff blurted out, “We decided to hire people of color, and look at all the problems that they bring.” People of color are continually assigned blame when things go wrong in society, churches, and workplaces. White people find it difficult to see where they are contributing to the problem or may, in fact, be the problem.
