In the same auditorium where the secretary of the treasury recently gave a lecture, a pair of very earnest facilitators tries to convince the room that unconscious bias is real, while everyone stares at their phones. Eventually they open it up for discussion and the conversation unfolds so predictably that Jess wonders how many more times she will be forced to sit in a room having her intelligence insulted. She imagines having this conversation over and over again, forever, until she dies. Sitting in her wheelchair, in the retirement home, surrounded by people who will never stop asking why we
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