Racism: Deprivation vs. Myopia

It's about time I jumped into the fray on ethnic moires in the presidential race. A lot of figures of speech used to degrade a person because of his or her skin color can be charged off as evidence, among blacks and whites, of a narrow experience in life. I'm an expert on the subject, and I know what I am talking about.

Both of my parents are of African descent. Yet, they instilled in me an attitude that transcended the bias that prevailed when I was a kid in the fifties on the Westside of Chicago. It was because of their encouragement and their unending efforts to take me around to most of the states in this country that I was able to excell in the "white man's world".

This simply means I know, first hand, what it is like to have a business appointment cancelled by an executive at the last minute when he or she discovered I was black. On occasion, my business partner and I had to agree that he should represent our company to new customers. As time passed, I achieved unparalleled advancements in business because I proved my worth to management at Fortune 500 companies. The list of corporations is stellar.

In my view, one has to be very ignorant of the real social progress in the United States, considering the influx of immigrants from hundreds of foreign countries. I think a lot of people would be amazed at the number of chief executives in the United States that are of the African-American heritage and foreign extracts.

Read my book, "Stock Power", to get a fact-based example of how racial bias in America can be, and should be, rejected as the basic reason to deny a qualified individual his or her right to a critical position in business or politics.

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