It was funny because his boss called him his token African American.
Haha! That is a hoot! I love it when you actually have coworkers who have the same moral compass you do. When I worked at the gun store I was the only woman on the range side. In fact I was the only woman in the front of the house. There was a black guy who worked on the range with us. I wanna say at the time he was the only black guy in the whole store. We joked around all the time that we were their tokens so we couldn't be fired. Lmao! All the other guys -- your average white fellas -- used to tell us all the time they were gonna go to the tanning booth for their dinner break ... a couple of them joked about becoming drag queens so they could get preferential treatment. Man, we had some really inappropriate conversations that had us ALL rolling in the floor in tears we were laughing so hard. Nowadays we'd all probably be standing around wondering who'd be gonna file the lawsuit for hostile work environment first.