A Karen Comeuppance: Ignorance Boomerangs
I ran across a story on Facebook that is both infuriating and satisfying. Ms. Jamia Driver was called into a meeting with a Team Lead over a shirt she wore, this is the shirt The man is artist and painter Jean Michel Basquiat who died at 27 years old. This will come into play later. In a series of images, captured from Facebook, we are a fly on the wall as Ms. Driver's immediate boss that I'll call Team Lead (since the supervisor comes in later, I'll call Karen the Team Lead) So let's pick this apart. A black man on her shirt must either be "known to the law" and automatically assumes this person is not of "positive career" and thinks he's a rapper. This shows her negativity and assumption that all rappers are not of positive careers. What is wrong with having a rapper on your shirt? SOME would say having a Biggie Smalls or Tupac shirt is not exhibiting a positive career, while others would disagree. She also says "I'm not familiar ...