That One Time I Almost Sold My Soul
How an encounter with uber-wealthy White people exposed me to their peculiar lifestyle and showed me why racial equality still has a long way to go.
I’m convinced that within the United States and abroad, there are White people who play an active, conscious role in the suppression of minority prosperity, especially when those people are Black.
The only way to avoid dealing with said suppression is to become an agent or tool of whatever enterprise these White people belong to.
For a point of reference, think about how overwhelmingly Black the National Basketball Association is, then go look at how many owners are minorities.
Sure, those athletes make millions of dollars, nothing to sneeze at or underappreciate. But, as a former athlete who befriended other athletes while at the University of Arkansas, I can tell you that that’s merely a fraction of their “total valuation.”
In other words, owners assess how much money they project they’ll make off of a basketball player. The higher the valuation, the higher the draft pick.
The higher the draft pick, the greater the expectations — but the higher the starting salary. Look no further than the starting pay for…
