African-American Millennials On Life In Corporate America

Being a brotha in corporate America sucks!!
Last one to get hired, 1st one to get fired, no matter how good you are at your job duties you're written up/warned/let go/terminated once you make mistakes no matter how forgivable they are, dealing with passive-aggressive Karens and Kens, ugh! I recommend NOT working in corporate America unless it's mandatory 😬🙄😤😖😅

I remember in high school, my mom would always complain about "the black woman" at her workplace and claim she was lazy and allowed to get away with not doing anything because she would sue for discrimination if they disciplined her. It wasn't until I was in college that I realized not only how incredibly racist those comments were, but also that my mother was probably completely wrong about her (now) former coworker. To be fair, I knew my mother was racist - I caught her using the n-word when I was 11 and she was more careful about what language she used around me after I scolded her for 15 minutes. But a lot of the more insidious stuff can easily fly under the radar if you've heard that kind of stuff all your life and never really think about it all that much.

I've had coworkers try to scold me for "not working hard enough" when I was actually getting more done than they were (it's easy to check those things when you're friends with the boss's daughter). But because they weren't my supervisor and didn't know what all I was actually doing, they thought I wasn't working hard. That's fairly common in most workplaces I've been in - you've always got that one co-worker that thinks they're in charge, despite not actually being in charge. And if I'm on the receiving end of that kind of behavior, it's going to be greatly amplified for ppl of color - especially when they're the only person of color at that particular workplace.

"America is not always a safe place to be"
"worry about getting home safe"

Honey, if you're worrying about whether or not you'll get home safely, America is fundamentally not a safe place to be.

If this was TYT, there would be a thousand down votes and nasty comments simply because it's a video about black people.

-Have you noticed the Republiklan use of the "urban elites" and "inner cities" phrases?
-When they talk about the "urban elites" they make it look like people who live in big cities are well off, unlike the Republiklans in the rural areas.
-When they talk about "inner cities", they obviously talk about black people and poverty.
-So which one is it?