Issa Rae is the realest. Period. After parlaying a successful web series Awkward Black Girl, into the HBO hit show, Insecure, after penning a New York Times bestselling book and landing a contract with CoverGirl, after all this winning one might expect her to go Hollywood and take the safe route, to start strategically standing down from controversial statements. Nope, not your girl. Issa keeps it one-hundred at all times.

                                       

Today's episode of, Issa is really 'bout this life, finds the 32-year-old at the Marriott's EmpowerME series, speaking before the National Black MBA Association in Philadelphia. In an interview with The Cut, prior to taking the stage, Issa concisely broke down White male privilege and the effects of systemic discrimination in the lives of black people.

"They don’t get that we’re not all starting from the same starting point. Straight, cis, white men don’t have the same obstacles — there’s not much in their path. That’s not to say they don’t have any of their own problems, but the playing field is not level by any means. It’s easy for people to dismiss your history, dismiss where you came from. Just because we graduated from the same college doesn’t mean we have the same opportunities," she said.

"There’s bias, even in the hiring process, and that’s something not enough people are aware of. It feels like a vicious Catch-22 when there aren’t diverse people behind the scenes. That [lack of diversity] alters the company or organization perspective, which means they’re not going to have people who look like the people they are trying to recruit. Even when we do these diversity events, I find that we tend to include other diverse people who also know the struggle and who are already familiar with the burdens, where the audience should be mostly white men and women. People aren’t aware, and they choose not to be. For so many people, unfortunately, the issues with people of color don’t affect them, so why would they burden themselves with caring?" Welp, that just about sums it up.

Issa for President, 2020.