I believe this is a common line of internal questioning women of color go through in the workplace when we experience racism. We want so desperately for “it” not to be racism, so we start to make up excuses for white people, and it even leads us to question ourselves. The thing is… we all know when we are being mistreated, but we still try and cover up the bad behavior. We still try and push through the microaggressions; we do this because we are often working as “the only,” and when you are in isolation, you don’t have anyone to validate your feelings. We have been telling ourselves white
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