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Why being the only minority creates impossible expectations

I am the only Black person at my company and my coworkers keep asking me to speak for my entire race during diversity discussions and I do not know how to say no without seeming uncooperative.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Tokenism transforms individual identity into unwanted representation that burdens the very people it claims to include.

Ideas that help explain it
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