I’m Okay With Being The Token

What it’s like to be the only person of color in the workplace.

Michelle Elizabeth
Nov 1 · 6 min read

he town I live in has a population of sixty-three thousand, and within that number only seven hundred are black. I knew that number when I moved here, and it didn’t bother me. I had grown accustomed over the past forty years of being the only person of color in the room, in school, and eventually on the job.

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