Ryan Stephens
New Dad | Voracious Reader | Curator | Runner | Strategist | Play Advocate | Focused on Slowing Down to Savor Life.
“Why do all the Black kids sit at the same table at school?” he asked. I was taken aback but tried to explain the social dynamics that might be at play. He followed with, “Why is it no longer okay to say n****r?”
Racial Fault Lines in Silicon Valley
Makinde Adeagbo
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This is so inexcusably inappropriate that I’m not sure what to say. Though, I will share I’ve been in an meeting when a previous boss asked two people we were meeting with, “Before we get started, should I refer to you all has black or African American?”
To this day, I have the utmost respect for the grace in which he answered, “You can call me Clint and him Travis” without missing a beat.
