It's a lesson only if he is shocked that he destroyed his career. If he had his eyes wide-open then I admire his conviction.
At it's core, this is an employee who is hurting the company brand (bottom-line) with a protest that is unrelated to whistle-blowing. I'm not a lawyer but it is my personal opinion that a business owner is not bound to sit idly while his employees hurt the brand every week for an issue unrelated to the business itself. It's that simple to me.
As to whether or not black people have a beef then I have to defer to my black friends, all highly educated and professional who have told me privately how they have been profiled. I liken it to when a woman you know tells you what life is like from her point of view in terms of sexual advances by men. We tend to not focus on that. I remember a very good friend of mine who was a classic sexual predator in high school (long ago). He groped the girls in school at will. To this day he is a very popular and a dynamic person in the eyes of the high school alums. But if you asked the now grown women (one in particular) they would paint a very different picture of him. But his male friends (me included) have written that off and continue to be his friend.
In my view, we have to assume that what we are told by our black and female friends is something we need to HEAR and take to heart. We can't learn anything during an internet political flame-war but we can learn something when we are being told these things in a calm, rational, closed-door conversation at work during some down-time between a black man and a white man who trust and support each other at work.
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