"My name is Jamal and I have dreadlocks. I'm old enough to be your father."

"For a woman, I'm rather butch."

"look at my Tweets and Quora responses rather than my bald head"

So this is about a woman who is "old enough to be your father", who has dreadlocks on her bald head?

Maybe I'm not up to date on the lingo, but how is "I'm actually a tiger once I warm up to people" positive? Is being a "tiger" some sales term for a people person?

Maybe I'm not the target audience, but this piece was just all over the place. I recognize that getting a job is hard, especially if you are different in some way (or in this case, every way, to the point of many contradictions).

Hiring is hard, too. Hiring the wrong people is bad, often much worse than missing out on good people. The point here seems to be "hire everyone," which is simply bad advice.

EDIT: Wow, a lot of replies! I probably missed the point of the article, especially as I've never worked anywhere big enough to have a "Hiring Manager" (although I've worked for plenty of discriminatory people, current position excepted).

I guess I expected a powerful anecdote, kind of like the "AirBNB isn't for black people" thing, but this article was actually something impossible to actually relate to. Especially, since the first paragraph vs the rest of the article is where most of the discrepancies lie.

I'm clearly just too far outside of the scope of this particular conversation.