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This is the most insane thing I have read in quite some time.

A PM working in government (happened to be a white woman) once asked me how I (a black engineer, early 30s) escaped the inner city and became successful. I thought about it and answered, "I decided to stop participating in activities that got the police involved in my life."

She called me a racist.

Are you even from the "inner city"? Trying to figure out how dumb this interaction was haha.

I have a totally opposite experience, I'm white trailer trash that managed to get a math PhD from a fairly high ranking school. People just assume I grew up upper middle class.

You caught that, eh?

I am not from the "inner city", and this conversation was pretty dumb. Most of them are.

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