I am trying to understand my "white supremacy"

[hifiguy]

31. A riff on it still exists.

But it has migrated up to the professional level.

High-level law firms, where I have had my experiences, genuinely don't care about race any more, at least if you are middle-class or above, and it's for monetary reasons. They wantand need lawyers who look like and can relate to their clients, who are increasingly diverse. I've even heard it bruited about that there aren't enough candidates available for the spots they'd like to fill; and I think this is an honest comment. Many big firms are gonna woo a well-qualified young African American law student or attorney as if he/she were a Disney prince(ss) these days.

Now if you're working class like I was when in my last years of law school, well, that's a different kettle of fish altogether. I grew up in a very working class suburb. Dads there were electricians, mechanics, worked for the city or state, were teachers, worked in factories, and the fancy-Dans had a one/two man accounting practice or insurance agency. Hell, they were royalty in the burb where I grew up. No doctors, lawyers or "executives", that was for sure.

Despite graduating college summa cum laude and making it all the way to Harvard Law, every firm but one made sure that "where did you go to high school, hifiguy?" was one of the first three questions asked by a partner. Translation: "Do your parents have money, connections, or, preferably, both? Are you Our Kind of Person?" I din't go to high school - dropped out when I was 16 to play bass and smoke dope - but the name of my hometown got responses of dead silence or "Oh....well" And I am a real Joe Average in terms of appearance - neither fat nor skinny, tall nor short, ugly nor handsome. I know how to be polite and professional in all surroundings, had an appropriate haircut, and how to dress appropriately despite being Asperger's. I am very reticent and rather socially awkward F2F, though, and always have been. But where I would have went to high school was far more important to them than the fact that I made it to Harvard Law School. Not our kind, dear. NEXT!