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Originally posted by baltassoc
Um... okay. But I've represented (solvent, profitable, expanding)companies whose white CEOs (hell, whose entire completely white management) were asked to sign personal guaranties on amounts significantly less than $2.5MM.
I don't really want to get into the whole race thing. I'm just curious why TM took this as being racial.
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The introductory phrase "it's funny" inclined me to think TM was joking. That is, he was playing off the fact that a black man with financial wherewithal to be able to sign a $2.5M guarantee, was still being "kept down." Kind of like how Chris Rock (and maybe Bill Cosby) joke about being kept down by the man. Isn't that phrase almost always a joke now (even though, obviously, it's one of those jokes with some truth to it)? Not to mention the fact that TM and (I'm assuming here) and the partner he was working with are both black, and, by drafting the guarantee, acting as agents for the Man keeping the CEO down.
Seems like a witty line, unless the client heard it.
