African American Vignette #9

A young white woman is doing some volunteer work at a county housing project.  As she enters one of the buildings, she asks an African American man, the manager of the housing project, if he is the janitor.  He tells her he is the manager.  After the woman leaves, a co-worker asks the manager if he is upset about the interaction. “No”, he says. “It happens all the time.”

Questions for the reader: Do you think there is a lesson to be learned
for the white volunteer in this interaction?  If it's true that
the black manager is not upset about the interaction,
how might he be thinking about it ?

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