When a brother no longer feels like business casual.
Being black brings a unique set of challenges. For me, it includes the need to be twice as good at what I do. It includes the burden of working against preconceptions about me created by images in the media, the shiftless security guard in the lobby and the wanna-be thugs loitering on the corner.
| We're cheered to hear that The Black Polemicist's Melvin is "An employed Negro," and newly motivated toward extra dress-code effort at our own gig
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