[roadcat]

When my father did his thing, Kenneths's words were the most meaningful to me. He said. "Keep your chin up."

Your's is also a strong message. What I learned, besides don't judge a book by its cover, is not to think you're better than someone else and they have little to offer just based on appearance. Because of my experience with that black man in college, I helped others later as an IT guru.

One guy was a rough gangsta looking black guy from the ghetto working as a technician for me. Upper management wanted me to fire him. Guy couldn't write well, poor speech, and people were put off by his looks and manerisms. But he was a hard worker and dedicated, and curious. I taught him about routers and programming in exchange for his troubleshooting skills with multiplexers and wiring. He watched my back when we went to ghetto areas, me a white guy in a suit apreciated his street smarts. He worked his way up to a high-paid router administrator for a complex.

[a little elbow grease]

"What I learned, besides don't judge a book by its cover, is not to think you're better than someone else and they have little to offer just based on appearance. Because of my experience with that black man in college, I helped others later as an IT guru.

One guy was a rough gangsta looking black guy from the ghetto working as a technician for me. Upper management wanted me to fire him. Guy couldn't write well, poor speech, and people were put off by his looks and manerisms. But he was a hard worker and dedicated, and curious. I taught him about routers and programming in exchange for his troubleshooting skills with multiplexers and wiring. He watched my back when we went to ghetto areas, me a white guy in a suit apreciated his street smarts. He worked his way up to a high-paid router administrator for a complex."

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Thank you for that story. Life is interesting isn't it?