Illustration: By Blacksneakers The day of my annual performance review, I sat in my office unable to focus on anything but how much my hands were shaking. Although I knew that I had done strong work as an in-house attorney managing legal and business affairs, I was convinced that my boss — an older white guy — was going to blindside me with an issue that I’d never heard about or a complaint that no one had bothered to share with me.
Months later, I got a call from the staffing director. I was hoping it was the new case assignment that I’d had my eye on, but it turned out to be something much more serious. Getting a new job at another law firm would be a way of putting all of the craziness behind me and starting a new chapter, I thought. On my last day, the staffing director gave me some parting advice. “You know, you could have gotten everything you wanted if you had just been more confident,” he said. I didn’t know how to explain everything that killed whatever confidence I had.
The frequency of discrimination is a major factor. “If one microaggression was all we ever had to deal with, I don’t think any of us would be complaining, but because it happens so often and unpredictably, the stress is cumulative. You don’t have any control over it. And it really sort of cuts at the heart of important parts of our identity,” Dr. Williams told me.
quidditch424 CC: SandyJoeKarpetz
BLACKKSNEAKERS quidditch424 BLACKKSNEAKERS feel like I recognize this art
quidditch424 You can thank me too
quidditch424 What a weak person.
quidditch424 PTSD from a Black graduate professor at a prestigious University in NY was also traumatic. Someone who was supposed to teach a course about race, but focuses more on tormenting anyone who was not Black is as abusive too...
quidditch424 I’ve been there, thanks RenttheRunway Plantation Factory
quidditch424 Follow ⊂_ヽ ＼＼ AND ＼( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ⌒ヽ / へ＼ / / ＼＼ I ﾚ ノ ヽ_つ / / / /| ( (ヽ | |、＼FOLLOW | 丿 ＼ ⌒) | | ) / ノ ) Lﾉ BACK (_／
quidditch424 This is out of left field, but take acting. Have you noticed that black actors acting with other black actors are more evocative, expressive & effective. When acting with whites, whites seem ill at ease, grim, jinxing actors they're dialoguing with. Watch any drama; it's obvious.
United States Latest News, United States Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Source: Women 2.0 - 🏆 149. / 63 Read more »
Source: papermagazine - 🏆 409. / 53 Read more »
Source: NPR - 🏆 96. / 63 Read more »
Source: BuzzFeed - 🏆 730. / 51 Read more »
Source: Mirror Celeb - 🏆 476. / 51 Read more »