How to Talk to Your Boss About Race by Y-Vonne Hutchinson

Author:Y-Vonne Hutchinson [Hutchinson, Y-Vonne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2022-02-02T00:00:00+00:00

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PUSHING BACK AGAINST THE PUSHBACK

HOW TO HANDLE RESISTANCE

Many of us know the feeling: The sickness in the pit of your stomach. The choice between protecting what you’ve earned and honoring who you are. We’re compelled to have these conversations at work even as we fear that they might backfire. Often, we—especially POC—walk into them cracked wide-open, already hurt, wounds still weeping. We pull it together with the optimistic, maybe naive, idea that maybe, this time, just maybe, we can make a difference. Maybe we can change things.

I’ve been having these conversations for a while. A list of the things I’ve lost:

Friends: Old friends, new friends, people who I discovered never really were my friends. Friends who showed their true colors and friends who didn’t show up at all.

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