Tom Brokaw just celebrated 50 years at NBC. He was very candid durig his interview with Wes Moore. In so many words he said the color of his skin gave him an advantage that a person of color would not have been afforded.
“I think the defining thing for me about race is I’m a white guy from a working class family in South Dakota and I got a job in Omaha. They took a chance on me, I didn’t have a lot of experience. Then I got a job in Atlanta at a very big station and then immediately I got hired to be in Los Angeles. It’s the biggest issue of my life. Frankly, it really is. You know, I get emotionally. I think mostly because of all the good things that have happened to me and when I do say that if I had been one shade darker, I wouldn’t have gotten any of those jobs at that time.” Then he emphasizes, “One shade darker!”
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