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LOSE YO JOB H A M M E D S I R L E A F & L A S H ATÁ G R A Y S O N
Do you ever receive emails that cause you to erase your response several times before responding because you are Black and you don’t want to be labeled the “angry Black person”? Have you ever experienced a moment during a meeting when you’ve dealt with so many microaggressions that you think about saying something, but you pause to think through how to best navigate the situation? During this pause, you try to be intentional – thinking before you speak – because you know this could go one of two ways; however, neither way is good. You think, “How am I going to address the situation without having to fear losing my damn job?” You begin to think it should get better with each new stage of your career. You begin to have those Issa Rae from “Insecure” talks with yourself and say:
“I just need to put in x amount of time here,” “Two years of grad school and I am out of here,” or “Wait until x, y, and z to happen.”
