A guy I worked with and I were the most senior teenage employees of a local cash-based business. We both graduate. I work rarely because I’m at college- he works a lot to pay for college.

Next summer we both want the manager job and both try out for it. I get it, yay! He gets upset and resigns.

I’m talking to the district manager and I’m lamenting that my buddy resigned and I was sorry he couldn’t get another management job at another location.

The district manager looks at me like I’m crazy and says, “You don’t let people like him handle the money!”

One of the most important jobs in my life - first management role- was given to me because I was white