On Banking Inclusivity and Race/Ethnicity
Channel: Matt
Date: 2020-08-24

"White people don't need to think about race. I told my agent the same thing. He said, 'Do you think I'm a racist?' And I said, 'Absolutely not. But when you needed to hire somebody, you hired your son, then your other son. And I understand that completely. But I've been with you for fifteen years and you've never hired a black person.' I told him that black people don't have the luxury of not thinking about race, but white people do. It doesn't affect them 99% of the time. They've not only got the access to money, but the access to power and authority... As much money as I may have, I still have to go and ask a white guy for a job. That's just the way it is." -- Charles Barkley, Who's Afraid of a Large Black Man? (hardcover, 2005, pp. 93)