Seriously, white "professionals." It's nowhere near as impressive as you think it is. People of color, Black people, are doing heavy, emotionally, and mentally taxing work that often hits trauma points in our experiences as melanated people even when we're not doing equity and anti-racism work for a living. Y'all are attending a 60-minute meeting twice a month.
That don't impress me much.
We are not doing the same work.
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