
Okay I still have older BlackBerry Confessions i have to upload and post on here, but this just happened this morning and now it has my mind swirling. I was talking to a co-worker from another department (about a last minute assignment), and a man comes up to us and asks me a question. However he doesn’t ask the guy sitting next to me who is more than capable in assisting.
So I answered his question, and made the guy sitting next to me finished helping him in what he was looking for. I asked my co-worker from another floor, let’s call him David, "David why does that always happen to me, I could be on the phone, assisting three elder women, juggling a baby, and people will always come up to me! Interrupt or wait for me to assist while my colleague next to me is doing nothing!" he said it a syndrome, which he grabbed my pad off my desk and simply jot down "The Help"
Now my friend is a Caucasian male, he said it’s true the type of people we work with are elderly and Caucasian, they come to me the black girl to take care of their problems. I wonder could that have any truth to it. I know foreigners are the ones to always work hard, and my boss knows if they give me a task it will be executed professionally, but could they really be drawn to me because I am black and thought of as the help?? (Somewhere in the back of their mind)

I always figured everyone knew how lazy my colleague next to me is, and they didn't bother him. But could it really be they all have this “The Help” syndrome which causes them to bypass the white guy and ask the black person for assistance.
Makes you think...please shed some light in a non derogatory way, if you’ve felt drawn to automatically ask a minority for assistance. Could it really be you see them as the help?