Originally Posted by TheSquealer

We hired a sales person at my gym once. The moment i heard her speak, i thought "wow, this woman is really articulate and well spoken". She had this really interesting way of speaking, almost like a stage actor delivering a monologue where you just wanted to hear each word she had to say. She had this fascinating way of engaging with and connecting to the person she was speaking to. It was unusual in the fitness industry, where you're usually dealing with a lot of unintelligent and difficult personalities. She is black. She was super smart, well spoken, had a big genuine smile and you just felt comfortable with her the moment she started to speak. She had done gym sales. She knew the pitches, the objections, how to overcome them, how to close etc... and how to do phone sales and get people in the door and she was perfect.

One day we are driving together and we were talking about someone,... I think it was someone at her old job who was higher up that she overheard saying when speaking about her like "She's really articulate". She started telling me how offended and hurt she was, saying things like "can you believe that? As if a black woman can't be articulate".

At that moment, I just felt bad for her. I realized that she had managed to take something as simple as someone noticing her best and most attractive traits as a person, and twisting it into some sort of cruel insult, based on race. I sat silently pondering what her day must be like and imagined myself doing the same thing in my everyday interactions and it just felt so miserable. It is a truly sad way to go through life.

Who really gives a fuck what a completely (and admittedly) emotionally unhinged black girl suffering through an identity crisis among other things, in the article thinks about how the world see's her, her world, her background, her race and so on? Notice, she didn't have the same concern for others. She isn't depressed and concerned about her not understanding Chinese or Jewish or Arab or Indian cultures. As is the biggest problem today in that segment of the black community, she thinks the world owes her something. That she's special. That everyone needs to notice her and the things she cares about. She's mostly upset at realizing and understanding that the world owes her nothing.