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Black and Brown people have no place in Corporate America. Because we're not cowards. Let me explain. Cowards run Corporate America. And the problem is that if you're black or brown, you were raised to speak your mind. We have honor and respect. Won't lie, or backstab. Don't lie to people, have strength and perseverance. And all these virtues are amazing for being a good human being. But Corporate America is mediocre. They're cowards. They don't want strength, they don't want perseverance. They say they do. They say they want people to speak the truth. But if you do, you are now their enemy because you're exposing their mediocrity. And the way that we were raised, like the culture, we would never betray people. We would never stab someone in the back. And all of them in Corporate America will do that. And so we're looked at as a threat inside the system. And not enough people are talking about this. And the only way that we can make change is by us being fed up. Like enough is enough. We have to speak about this and put these cowards on notice. I had a 20-year career in financial services. And it was great for the first 80%. But the last 20%, I just wasn't going to conform to them. And I decided to leave and become an author. And I wrote a book on this called The Corporate Coward, available on Amazon. But I'm realizing, I don't know if black and brown people are going to be able to have amazing careers because we're not going to sell out. Sure, maybe some of us will, right? But the ones who are true to holding down to how they were raised, it's not going to work out for us in Corporate America. It's filled with cowards. And it's just very hard for black and brown people to excel in that environment because we're not them. And we never will be.