Plantation Theory: The Black Professional's Struggle Between Freedom and Security

Essentially, if you had time to gather in a group, you must not have a job, and therefore, you’d be deemed a criminal.

The sheer Caucacity to suggest that I’m unwilling to consider other people’s paths towards change when my people have had to accommodate white’s comfort ever since we were integrated into their broader society. She hadn’t considered that I am only four generations removed from slavery and only two generations removed from Jim Crow segregation.

transition group

There were over 100 people on the call, but only about six or seven of us spoke. It’s typical for this to happen as most Black folks are still unclear on how safe it is to fully express their concerns in open forums, especially those that have whites present.

When you open the flood gates for external talent to pour in, the signal you’re sending to your existing employees is that you don’t see the value in those who already know your culture, business practices, and processes. You are devaluing their contributions to your bottom line and overlooking the leadership potential waiting to rise from within y

fear of loss of entitlement and special designation.

chained to the concepts of success that were sold to our ancestors? Or will we decide there’s another construct we can create for ourselves that doesn’t rely on waiting for White validation? When you graduate from high school, you go to a predominantly white college or university, graduate and get a good-paying job, work for thirty years, and then

The outward exclamation that we must celebrate the differences in our workforce has been countered by the unspoken truth that celebration doesn’t connote elevation.

The newly elevated Europeans became what we now know today as the overseer class or the Manager class. They were entrusted with ensuring that labor continued without interruption and that the English upper-class investors’ profitability

stoke the buffer class’s fears.