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How the burden of representation creates impossible choices in workplace dynamics

I'm tired of being the only Black person expected to educate my white coworkers about racism but I also feel guilty when I don't speak up.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

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Tokenism creates exhausting responsibility for individual education of entire institutions while guilt punishes self-preservation.

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