This White Manager Asked Me If I Wanted To Be A Token Black Hire

And I agreed

Photo by James Kovin on Unsplash

It was at the start of my career. I was still quite hopeful, or maybe some of you would say naive. I’d applied for a job in an organization known to hire no Black people at all. I was warned by my friends that I’d never get in, that the rejection would be emotionally challenging to manage.