The importance of being black

The Slave Shift
I have been working the slave shift and I ain’t paid sh*t. That’s what comes to mind when I think of my job and what’s most upsetting is that one of the partners had the gall to tell me I was lucky to be there because of my skin colour....oh really. In this day and age, if he had said that he was looking at someone else’s stellar resume I wouldn’t have been so pissed but the fact that he went and told me that when he liked my resume when he saw it, but didn’t like my skin colour is a bit out of line.

Honestly I know that I'm the only person of colour in a 25 storey building and do not need someone making me feel self conscious about that fact. I love being who I am but I do not think I should be defined by the colour of my skin. I am balck and I am proud.