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When friendship becomes unpaid emotional labor around race

My white friends keep asking me to explain every news story about racism like I'm Google and I'm exhausted from being their cultural translator.

Juana
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The coach is replying

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Proximity to whiteness often requires performing the role of educator and translator without reciprocal care or compensation.

Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with The examined colonial subject?”

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