For black CEOs in Silicon Valley, humiliation is a part of doing business

For everyone arguing "honest mistake" or "just chance", think about the person at the receiving end. For the person making that mistake, it could be their first, but for the person at the receiving end it could be the hundredth, and that too, not without consequences. The first 3-4 times I got "randomly selected" for additional screening at the airport, I was like whatever. But years later after my probably 100th "random selection", I am mostly just upset. Watching traveler after traveler go around you, staring at you, while you're being subjected to additional search, your baggage laid out open in front of everyone, while being asked questions like "have you recently been in contact with any chemicals?" and so on. It is humiliating. And this is just one aspect of their life. Imagine having to face "honest mistakes" everyday in all kinds of different aspects of your life.

Did you ever think it might be the way you dress or your demeanor? Obviously, it could be racial also, but how could you know that?

His clothes or demeanor can’t possible be the same for n > 100, but his race sure is.

Let’s face it, the TSA blatantly discriminates against race and it’s not a secret.