Racism conversation between me and a friend...

I just got done having a very interesting conversation between myself and a friend of mine. I am white; he is black.

As we sat on the back porch drinking a beer, he, out of the blue, says, "do you want to know the problem with racism today"?

I said, "What ya got."

Little did I know what was about to ensue. He goes on for a good while about what he thinks is today's real issue. During this conversation, he mainly focuses on a single issue.

He said, "The real problem today is not white people. The real problem today is the inferiority complex that my people still have. No matter how many degrees I have (he has some very good ones), how much money I have (he is doing very well), or how much I accomplish (he is very successful), at the end of the day, I still just feel like a n***a with a degree and a good job. And, man, that's not your fault. That's something that I've got to deal with on my own."

He further explained that this is the reason that he adamantly hates democrats and affirmative action. He says affirmative action is the reason he strives to do everything ten times better than anyone else.

He told me a story about a meeting with his boss where he questioned his bosses intentions of hiring him. Asking him to be honest if his color was the reason that he had the job. He said he would respectfully resign if that were the reason, because he didn't want to be in a place where he was not really adding value.

He said that was the most impactful conversation that he had ever had in his life. After his boss noticed how big of an issue this was to him, he said the boss stands up, asks him to hang out for a few minutes, and walks out of the office. About 15 minutes later, his walks back in with a stack of files under each arm and lays them on each end of his desk. One set of files was much larger than the other.

His boss looks at him and asks if he knows what those files are. My friend says, "no." He then proceeds to tell him that the larger stack was my friends work for a single month and the smaller stack were those of a coworker who was perceived to be the best employee in the building.

As he teared up, he said that his boss wrote "$12,000" on a piece of paper, slid it across the desk, and asked him if he knew what that was? Again, my friend said, "no." His boss said, "that is how much more you make a year from this day forward."

Then, his boss asks, "does that answer your question"?

My friend said he sobbed like a little bi***. Lol.

Don't we all wish that we had leaders like that in our life?

Yet, a few years after that event, my friend said he still feels insecure, inadequate, and inferior. He called it "a n***a with a degree syndrome." How sad.