Well, today has been somewhat of a slow day and I’ve been reflecting on my life and one of the things that occurred to me is how much the impact of some key decisions that I made in my youth, how much those decisions impact my circumstances today, for better or for worse.
Now I always knew growing up that I wanted to be responsible and work hard.
I was gifted with intelligence that I was able to apply and that helped me get into a good college and good law school.
But I have to say that of all the decisions I made, the best decision I ever made was to become a white male.
Now one of the benefits of being a white male is that many of the problems that plague our society are simply off the radar screen.
You know, we don’t have to worry about things like being ignored because I don’t fit the prototype or the type they’re looking for.
And I found that, for example, when I’m in a job interview with another white male, we don’t even think about race, we just think about the job interview.
And I’ve learned that, or I should say I’ve heard, I don’t know too much about it, but I’ve heard that people that are not white males have other variables to consider than just the job interview, whether they’re female or a person of color.
They have to factor in this whole other calculus into the job interview and I’m glad that I chose to be a white male because frankly, I don’t have the bandwidth for that.
I want to focus on what matters, which is climbing the ladder, making lots of money, and recognizing that I’m inherently better than everyone else, just by the fact of being me, which includes, of course, being a white male.
Now, again, it’s been kind of a slow period and I’ve been able to do some YouTube viewing and one of the things that I’ve been able to watch with great delight is reruns of the Johnny Carson show.
And it really takes me back.
Things have changed so much and it’s hard to keep up sometimes.
I mean, sometimes, for example, I may actually see a black person at work and I really don’t know what to do with that, but if you think about the good old days, we didn’t have that kind of awkwardness.
And if that black person had also chosen to be a white male, then we wouldn’t have that problem.
So I just don’t understand, you know, diversity is fine, but I think that you have to think about things.
You have to say, well, maybe I like having this skin color now because I’m young and I want to be different and maybe more stylish, but you’ve got to think about the long term.
It’s like sports.
You may want to play basketball and football, but long term, golf is your only option.
And so you have to think strategically.
You can’t just do things because they seem cool in the moment.
And so again, I’m glad that I made a good decision.
It’s really helped me to kind of move forward in life, you know, and to kind of filter out a lot of the problems.
I mean, I’ve heard that, you know, there are people that they don’t fit into the male or female mold, you know, there are people that are immigrants or they don’t speak English or, you know, they’ve got systematic discrimination over generations and, you know, they’re just trying to survive and, you know, and especially in a tough economy, they even have a harder time.
And, you know, again, if they had just decided to be a white male, most of those problems would not even be on the radar.
And that would give them peace and, you know, let’s be honest, it would give them a leg up, you know, like in that job interview.
They wouldn’t have to worry about the racial factor they could just be a white male and just focus on the facts.
And you know, again, I’m not here to criticize anybody else’s decisions.
I’m just saying that I know that I’m glad that I made the decision to be a white male.
And I recommend that you tell your children to make the same decision because things happen fast.
And, you know, if you don’t get on the white male track quickly enough, then it really becomes hard to backtrack.
So thanks for listening.
Have a happy holiday season.
Boyd Camak 