A mixed-race man who passes as white receives a message from a friend, Ecstasy, telling him that a Black woman wants him to hack "race randomizer" technology--headsets worn by jury members to alter the race of the defendant, in an attempt to eliminate bias from the judicial process--so that her son, the defendant, is tried as a white male. As he hacks, the narrator realizes that a foreign government has hacked into his own software so deeply that it has even managed to find out his real name. He suspects Russian interference.
The narrator calls Ecstasy for advice and she tells him that she believes the Russians are trying to destabilize the U.S. by telling people on both sides of the debate about race randomization to fight the other side. The narrator releases the truth about this to the American press, but he is met with doubt.
The Russian hackers try to get the narrator killed by leaking a video of him having an encounter with an underage white girl. This footage is doctored and fundamentally false because the narrator never did this and the man in the video has much darker skin than he does. When the cops arrive to arrest him, he confesses to being a hacker, but the cops understand that he is not the person in the video. The narrator realizes that he is not seen as a threat because he can pass as white, though his father was Black.
To help the Black boy with his trial, he hires people sick with the flu to walk around the jurors' locations so that they will become sick. He then retires having completed his task