Read on Twitter
1/ A thread. 1 of the most racist bosses I ever had refused to speak to me from the 1st day of work. Made it clear to me & my white colleagues that I was a “diversity hire.” And therefore not worthy of respect. This same boss, after the Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin verdict came in
2/Made big show of how upsetting & unjust it was. Complained & moaned re: the verdict to the white woman in the office right across from me. The same woman who openly insulted me me daily. Then the boss walked right by my office & kept right on ignoring me. I couldn’t believe it
3/I bet this card carrying “liberal” boss never saw how the disrespectful & callous treatment of me in the office, the only Black man on staff, was/is connected to the same legacy of devaluing Black life & intellect that kills Black men & women in the streets. To be clear...
4/I’m not equating the murders of Martin/Floyd/Breonna & so many others to the hurtful/silly politics of a workplace. But most white folks will never shoot a Black person in the streets. But they might choke off opportunity, in big & small ways, to a Black person in the office...
5/ They might stay silent about the racial injustices that happens right around them in their daily life. They might even use the complicated vulnerabilities of Blackness in America against a colleague to further their own position. Which is cheap & sad & evil & they know it...
6/my point: don’t act like u don’t understand why there’s civil unrest by reducing riots, the language of the unheard, to one incident. Consider the injustices that make the news and also consider the countless gestures of anti-Blackness you see, or do, every day. And add it up.
