Shopping, Dining, Using a Credit Card While Black

Shopping, Dining, Using a Credit Card While Black
A child holds a sign as demonstrators protest outside the Edward Jones Dome in downtown St. Louis, Missouri on November 30, 2014. Demonstrators marched through the streets of St. Louis that eventually led to clashes with police officers and fans from an American Football game between the St. Louis Rams and Oakland Raiders. Protests have continued following a grand jury decision not to charge a white police officer for the shooting death last of an unarmed black teenager. AFP PHOTO/Michael B. Thomas (Photo credit should read Michael B. Thomas/AFP/Getty Images)
A child holds a sign as demonstrators protest outside the Edward Jones Dome in downtown St. Louis, Missouri on November 30, 2014. Demonstrators marched through the streets of St. Louis that eventually led to clashes with police officers and fans from an American Football game between the St. Louis Rams and Oakland Raiders. Protests have continued following a grand jury decision not to charge a white police officer for the shooting death last of an unarmed black teenager. AFP PHOTO/Michael B. Thomas (Photo credit should read Michael B. Thomas/AFP/Getty Images)

With the entire country seeing demonstrations following the Ferguson decision, I’ve had colleagues and business partners ask me my thoughts—not from my perspective as the chairman and CEO of a $55 billion organization—but as a black man in America.

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