A few days ago I posed the question: Would you rather have economic stability at cost of your dehumanization, or be respected as a full human at the cost of economic stability?
This article on Racism I’m reading touches on something similar. It tells the stories of many African Americans in the early 1900’s who were light skinned enough to “pass” as White, who got White, better paying jobs. It tells the stories of how they suffered silently listening to and going along with the overt racism of their White co-workers, pretending to be people who they were not, just so they could put food on the table for their families.