very day. Punishing other white people is the easiest thing we do."

Let me give you a story that a lot of people didn't believe when I've been telling this story for years. It's completely true. But when I tell it there's a certain percentage of you who will swear I'm lying. Trust me, I've been saying it for I don't know, 25 years since I've been able to tell the story. And there would be literally thousands of witnesses still alive who would be refuting me because I tell this story all the time. Plenty of people could refute it if it were not true.

And it goes like this. When I worked for a big bank, it was Crocker National Bank years ago, beginning of my career. My career was going well and it looked like I'd be sort of a management type person. And my boss called me into her office, a white woman, and she said, "I don't know how to tell you this but the word has come down from management that we can't promote you now or for any time in the future that we can see because you're white and because you're a man." And they said the reason is that the company was getting some heat because there was not enough diversity in senior management.

So now you may have heard me tell the story. But here's the twist on it. Who was it who screwed me? Who did that? Was it Black people? No, no. It was old white men threw me under the bus in a heartbeat to protect themselves because they could keep their job as senior management so long as they screwed enough white people in lower levels to let people of color sort of leapfrog and get up to senior management.

Now independent of whether you think that was a good idea to have this reverse discrimination, not legally but the way companies implemented it was like that. So independent of whether you think that's a good or bad idea, the only point I'm going to make today is that when white men were asked to destroy my life for