“What more do those people of color want?!?!” After I take a few deep breaths and try hard to remember when I have thought or said something similar, I can usually de-escalate my emotions enough to say something useful. I might enter with, “I wish I could agree with you. I so wish that race didn’t matter anymore. And I wish that Affirmative Action had successfully achieved its goal, but I recently saw another statistic that again pointed out how white women, by far, have been the beneficiaries of Affirmative Action practices. And while we do see some progress with hiring people of color into
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