'None of the serious indignities and disadvantages of being a minority in America has been inflicted on me, yet I have accrued all the benefits of being a person of color, particularly when it comes to my career'
The difference is that the white people in the sketch don’t know that Murphy is Black, while the white people in my life don’t realize I am, if not white, then about as close to it as one can get. One of my parents is white. I also enjoy certain markers of status; I had a good, private education, which later proved useful in introducing me to the kinds of white people one encounters in the more exclusive enclaves of the white-collar workforce.
These experiences left only the faintest scars on my psyche. They were well worth the trade-off that appeared later in my career, when a lack of diversity became a crisis for politically aware companies. Around 2015 came a palpable shift, a sense of doors opening that had previously been shut. Emails were returned; jobs were obtained. Then, in subsequent years, in a great rush, from several companies at once, recruitment, sometimes for positions for which I was patently unqualified.
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